The Sledge 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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5.03 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1891. The next wettest, 4.81 inches, fell in 1957.
Sledge’s center stands about 180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 160 ft to 210 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 8 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 Sledge reaches the Gulf of America by way of Burrell Bayou, the Coldwater, the Tallahatchie, the Yazoo and the Mississippi: about 740 river miles.
450 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sledge; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sledge has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. Barely 0.0 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sledge normally reaches 65° and falls to 39°. The record high is 86°, in 1955; the record low 18°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 4.33 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at Batesville, 17 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
