The Eagle Bend 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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9.80 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1948. The next wettest, 5.75 inches, fell in 1948.
Eagle Bend’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 70 ft to 150 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Fort Hill, about 360 ft, 13 miles southeast.
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 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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 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 Eagle Bend reaches the Gulf of America by way of Steele Bayou, the Yazoo and the Mississippi: about 480 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Eagle Bend; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Eagle Bend has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Eagle Bend normally reaches 68° and falls to 44°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 20°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.59 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 from the Tallulah-Vicksburg Area threaded record (Tallulah Vicksburg Regional Airport, 12 miles south). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
