The Fort Gaines plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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Fort Gaines’s center stands about 260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 420 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Johnny Moore Hill, about 500 ft, 9 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tuscahoma Sand, from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 46×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand, clay. Age: Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 smaller units along the line are not listed.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
A raindrop that lands in Fort Gaines reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Chattahoochee and the Apalachicola: about 180 river miles.
110 miles of the trip are on the Apalachicola.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fort Gaines; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
