The Wickliffe 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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14° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1987. Next is 16° in 1997.
Wickliffe’s center stands about 410 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 280 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Jackson and Claiborne Formations, undivided (sandstone, siltstone), from the Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 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, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Tertiary to Holocene, less than 66 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Paleocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 3 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 Wickliffe reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mississippi: about 970 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wickliffe; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wickliffe has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 89° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1987 at Cairo 3 N, 8 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
