The Guntown 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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17° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1930. Next is 17° in 2019.
Guntown’s center stands about 400 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 320 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Lebanon Mountain, about 800 ft, 9 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Coffee sand (sand, clay), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 43×. 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, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Chalk. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Chalk, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 Guntown reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Sand Creek, Mud Creek, Town Creek, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 440 river miles.
350 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Guntown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Guntown has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 58 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Guntown normally reaches 65° and falls to 42°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 21°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 2.55 in, fell in 1930.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1930 from the Tupelo Area threaded record (Tupelo, 14 miles south-southwest, 120 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
