The Tremont 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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4.06 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1962. The next wettest, 3.04 inches, fell in 2014.
Tremont’s center stands about 370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 320 ft to 550 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pilot Hill, about 800 ft, 15 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Tuscaloosa formation (sand, clay), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 39×. 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: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 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 Tremont reaches Mobile Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Johns Creek, Bull Mountain Creek, the Tombigbee and the Mobile: about 440 river miles.
360 miles of the trip are on the Tombigbee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Tremont; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Tremont has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Tremont normally reaches 64° and falls to 36°. The record high is 82°, in 1985; the record low 13°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.04 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1962 at Hamilton, 16 miles east-southeast, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
