The Scooba 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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92° on Nov. 13, 1985, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 85° in 2005.
Scooba’s center stands about 230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 180 ft to 290 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is White House Mountain, about 600 ft, 12 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Porters Creek formation (clay), from the Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 47×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Chalk. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, sandstone. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 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. 2 smaller units 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 Scooba reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Little Scooba Creek, Big Scooba Creek, Bodka Creek, the Noxubee, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 300 river miles.
220 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Scooba; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Scooba has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 55 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Scooba normally reaches 66° and falls to 40°. The record high is 81°, in 1964; the record low 22°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.35 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Gainesville Lock, 20 miles east, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
