The Baxterville 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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6.76 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1896. The next wettest, 3.95 inches, fell in 1947.
Baxterville’s center stands about 420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 430 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Citronelle formation (sand, gravel), from the Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 57×. 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, gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 11 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 Baxterville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Half Moon Creek, Lower Little Creek and the Pearl: about 150 river miles.
130 miles of the trip are on the Pearl.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Baxterville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Baxterville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 65 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Baxterville normally reaches 69° and falls to 46°. The record high is 84°, in 1924; the record low 25°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 4.91 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Poplarville Experiment Sta, 17 miles south, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
