The Wiggins 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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20° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1946. Next is 23° in 2011.
Wiggins’s center stands about 280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 160 ft to 330 ft, a difference of 170 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.
Clay, sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Sand, gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 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 Wiggins reaches the Gulf of America by way of Red Creek, Big Black Creek, the Pascagoula and the West Pascagoula: about 90 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wiggins; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wiggins has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 67 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wiggins normally reaches 70° and falls to 44°. The record high is 83°, in 1985; the record low 24°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 5.80 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1946 at Wiggins, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
