The Hide-A-Way Lake 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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25° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1988. Next is 26° in 2025.
Hide-A-Way Lake’s center stands about 110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 60 ft to 170 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Citronelle formation (sand, gravel), from the Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 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 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.
Sand, gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 4 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 Hide-A-Way Lake reaches the Gulf of America by way of Mill Creek, West Hobolochitto Creek and the Pearl: about 50 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hide-A-Way Lake; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hide-A-Way Lake has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 41° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hide-A-Way Lake normally reaches 71° and falls to 47°. The record high is 82°, in 2005; the record low 29°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 1.53 in, fell in 2022.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1988 at Slidell Airport, 19 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
