The Buckatunna 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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14° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 17° in 1916.
Buckatunna’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 110 ft to 260 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Catahoula formation (sand), from the Miocene, 5.3 to 23 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. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million 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 Buckatunna reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Chickasawhay, the Pascagoula and the West Pascagoula: about 150 river miles.
70 miles of the trip are on the Chickasawhay.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Buckatunna; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Buckatunna has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Buckatunna normally reaches 69° and falls to 42°. The record high is 83°, in 1964; the record low 17°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 3.71 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Waynesboro 2 W, 13 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
