The Fayette 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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5.85 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1892. The next wettest, 5.26 inches, fell in 1929.
Fayette’s center stands about 290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 370 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Blue Hill, about 490 ft, 10 miles east-northeast.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 42×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 Fayette reaches the Gulf of America by way of Fairchilds Creek, Mud Island Creek, Coles Creek and the Mississippi: about 420 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fayette; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fayette has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Fayette normally reaches 67° and falls to 43°. The record high is 87°, in 1921; the record low 22°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 4.29 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Natchez, 18 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
