The Purvis 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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5.00 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1893. The next wettest, 4.25 inches, fell in 1929.
Purvis’s center stands about 360 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 250 ft to 400 ft, a difference of 150 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 2 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 14 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 10 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 Purvis reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sweatmans Creek, Little Beaver Creek, Little Black Creek, Black Creek, Big Black Creek, the Pascagoula and the West Pascagoula: about 130 river miles.
80 miles of the trip are on Black Creek.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Purvis; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Purvis has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 59 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Purvis normally reaches 70° and falls to 44°. The record high is 90°, in 1925; the record low 25°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 3.60 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 from the Hattiesburg Area threaded record (Hattiesburg Chain Municipal Airport, 12 miles northeast, 210 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
