The New Site 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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New Site’s center stands about 420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 310 ft to 470 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Barnett Knob, about 720 ft, 15 miles north-northeast.
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 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 57×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 9 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 New Site reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 470 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New Site; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
