The Big Point 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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5.72 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1871. The next wettest, 5.59 inches, fell in 1914.
Big Point’s center stands about 70 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 110 ft, a difference of 90 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 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.
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 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 0.7 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 Big Point reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Escatawpa and the Singing: about 30 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Big Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Big Point has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 41° in January. About 67 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Big Point normally reaches 70° and falls to 48°. The record high is 82°, in 2008; the record low 28°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 1.55 in, fell in 1929.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Mobile Area threaded record (Mobile Regional Airport, 16 miles east-northeast, 140 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
