The Kentwood 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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23° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 25° in 1963.
Kentwood’s center stands about 240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 180 ft to 340 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (clay), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, 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 Kentwood reaches Lake Pontchartrain and the Gulf of America by way of the Tangipahoa: about 70 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kentwood; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kentwood has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 61 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kentwood normally reaches 69° and falls to 45°. The record high is 85°, in 1993; the record low 25°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 3.02 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Mccomb Airport, 17 miles north, 160 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
