The Mountain Park 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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15° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1946. Next is 16° in 2025.
Mountain Park’s center stands about 1,010 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,360 ft, a difference of 460 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kennesaw Mountain, about 1,780 ft, 12 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mica Schist/ Gneiss/ Amphibolite (gneiss, mica-schist, amphibolite), from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 28×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Amphibolite, biotite-gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 9 mi of the line.
Hornblende-gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 6 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, mica-schist, biotite-gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 5 mi of the line.
Gneiss, mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 0.5 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 Mountain Park reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Rocky Creek, the Little River, the Etowah, the Coosa, the Alabama and the Mobile: about 710 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lay Lake and Allatoona Lake.
310 miles of the trip are on the Alabama.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mountain Park; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mountain Park has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Mountain Park normally reaches 62° and falls to 38°. The record high is 78°, in 1964; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.70 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1946 at Allatoona Dam 2, 19 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
