The Medon 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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14° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 17° in 1959.
Medon’s center stands about 460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 400 ft to 630 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Laurel Hill, about 660 ft, 13 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Claiborne and Wilcox Formation (sand), from the Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 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 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.
Sand. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Tertiary, 2.6 to 66 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 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 Medon reaches the Gulf of America by way of Clover Creek, Cypress Creek and the Mississippi: about 920 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Medon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Medon has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Medon normally reaches 61° and falls to 38°. The record high is 80°, in 1964; the record low 18°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Jackson Mckellar- Sipes Airport, 10 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
