The Clara 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.
Clara’s center stands about 230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 320 ft, a difference of 130 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.
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 24 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 Clara reaches the Gulf of America by way of Big Creek, the Chickasawhay, the Pascagoula and the West Pascagoula: about 160 river miles.
65 miles of the trip are on the Pascagoula.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Clara; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Clara 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 Clara 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, 7 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
