The Pontotoc 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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Showers likely; cooler
Chance of showers; warmer
Sunny
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84° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1947. Next is 83° in 2016.
Pontotoc’s center stands about 1,030 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 970 ft to 1,140 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 33×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale, sandstone. Age: Middle Ordovician, 459 to 471 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Pontotoc reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Blue Creek, the Blue River, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 860 river miles.
610 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Pontotoc; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pontotoc has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in August; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Centrahoma 2 ESE, 20 miles east-northeast, 320 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
