The Senatobia 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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14° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 15° in 1940.
Senatobia’s center stands about 300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 360 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Kosciusko formation (sand, clay), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
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, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 24 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 Senatobia reaches the Gulf of America by way of Hickahala Creek, the Coldwater, the Tallahatchie, the Yazoo and the Mississippi: about 790 river miles.
Lake on the way: Arkabutla 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 Senatobia; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Senatobia has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Senatobia normally reaches 62° and falls to 40°. The record high is 83°, in 1955; the record low 18°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 2.95 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Hernando, 13 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
