The Maben 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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4.82 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1891. The next wettest, 4.68 inches, fell in 2015.
Maben’s center stands about 440 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 350 ft to 540 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sand Mountain, about 650 ft, 14 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Naheola formation (sand, clay), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 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 56×. 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: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Chalk, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 1 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 Maben reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pigeon Roost Creek, the Big Black and the Mississippi: about 700 river miles.
420 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Maben; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Maben has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 58 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Maben normally reaches 66° and falls to 42°. The record high is 86°, in 1955; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at State University, 18 miles east-southeast, 260 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
