The New Hope 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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22° on Nov. 17, 1997, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1981. Next is 22° in 2013.
New Hope’s center stands about 260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 360 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 62×. 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 7 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Chalk, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 New Hope reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Luxapallila Creek, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 350 river miles.
290 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New Hope; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New Hope has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 New Hope normally reaches 67° and falls to 43°. The record high is 81°, in 2011; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 2.34 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1981 at Columbus, 3 miles west, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
