The Oxford 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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11° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 15° in 1940.
Oxford’s center stands about 510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 360 ft to 570 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tallahatta formation and Neshoba sand (claystone, clay), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 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 54×. 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 19 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 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 Oxford reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Yocona, the Tallahatchie, the Yazoo and the Mississippi: about 760 river miles.
Lake on the way: Enid Lake.
450 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Oxford; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Oxford has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Oxford normally reaches 65° and falls to 40°. The record high is 86°, in 1955; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 4.70 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at University, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
