The Hickory 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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85° on Nov. 13, 1964, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1889. Next is 84° in 1921.
Hickory’s center stands about 330 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 310 ft to 490 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Nance Hill, about 590 ft, 13 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Kosciusko formation (sand, clay), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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.
Claystone, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Marl, sand. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 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 Hickory reaches the Gulf of America by way of Potterchitto Creek, the Chunky, the Chickasawhay, the Pascagoula and the West Pascagoula: about 270 river miles.
160 miles of the trip are on the Chickasawhay.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hickory; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hickory has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hickory normally reaches 69° and falls to 43°. The record high is 84°, in 1921; the record low 21°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 2.07 in, fell in 1929.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1889 from the Meridian Area threaded record (Meridian Key Field, 16 miles east). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
