The Hatley 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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4.12 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1892. The next wettest, 3.84 inches, fell in 1929.
Hatley’s center stands about 360 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 250 ft to 440 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Eutaw formation (sand, clay), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 53×. 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 21 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 0.3 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 Hatley reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Turner Branch, Standifer Creek, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 410 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hatley; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hatley has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hatley normally reaches 64° and falls to 39°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 21°, in 1907. The most rain on this date, 3.31 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Aberdeen, 12 miles south-southwest, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
