The Leslie 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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86° on Nov. 12, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1978. Next is 85° in 2011.
Leslie’s center stands about 350 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 290 ft to 380 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eocene and Oligocene Residuum, undifferentiated (sand, clay), from the Eocene to Oligocene, 23 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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 10 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale.
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 Leslie reaches the Gulf of America by way of Chokee Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 250 river miles.
130 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Leslie; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Leslie has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1978 at Crisp Co Power Dam, 11 miles southeast, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
