The Benoit 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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17° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1903. Next is 20° in 1940.
Benoit’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 180 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 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 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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 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 Benoit reaches the Gulf of America by way of Burrus Bayou, Pistol Slough, Stillwater Bayou, McCuteheon Bayou, Bear Lake, Jones Bayou, the Big Sunflower, the Yazoo and the Mississippi: about 620 river miles.
450 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Benoit; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Benoit has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Benoit normally reaches 65° and falls to 42°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 24°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 3.22 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1903 from the Greenville Area threaded record (Greenville Asos, 11 miles south). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
