The Putney 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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18° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 22° in 1963.
Putney’s center stands about 200 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 140 ft to 250 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ocala Limestone, from the Eocene, 34 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.
Limestone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, claystone. Age: Tertiary Neogene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 5 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 Putney reaches the Gulf of America by way of Dry Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 200 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 Putney; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Putney has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 39° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Putney normally reaches 72° and falls to 46°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 23°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 2.59 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 from the Albany Area threaded record (Albany Sw Georgia Regional Airport, 6 miles northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
