The Benndale 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. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1946. Next is 23° in 2011.
Benndale’s center stands about 170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 30 ft to 210 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Taylor Hill, about 330 ft, 13 miles north-northwest.
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 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, sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.5 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 Benndale reaches the Gulf of America by way of Mill Creek, the Pascagoula and the West Pascagoula: about 65 river miles.
50 miles of the trip are on the Pascagoula.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Benndale; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Benndale has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 67 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Benndale normally reaches 70° and falls to 44°. The record high is 83°, in 1985; the record low 24°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 5.80 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1946 at Wiggins, 20 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
