The Woodville 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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Woodville’s center stands about 410 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 250 ft to 430 ft, a difference of 180 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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 54×. 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, gravel. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.3 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 Woodville reaches the Gulf of America by way of West Fork Thompson Creek, Thompson Creek and the Mississippi: about 320 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Woodville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
