The Pleasure Bend 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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20° on Nov. 16, 1940, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 24° in 1969.
Pleasure Bend’s center stands about 16 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (clay), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 3 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 13 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 Pleasure Bend reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Lac des Allemands and the Bayou des Allemands: about 70 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lac des Allemands.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pleasure Bend; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pleasure Bend has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 44° in January. About 71 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pleasure Bend normally reaches 73° and falls to 52°. The record high is 88°, in 1909; the record low 27°, in 1907. The most rain on this date, 3.50 in, fell in 1914.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Thibodaux 4 SE, 14 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
