The Ramer 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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9° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1923. Next is 13° in 2019.
Ramer’s center stands about 440 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 390 ft to 580 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pine Mountain, about 700 ft, 14 miles south-southwest.
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 61×. 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: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 4 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 Ramer reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cypress Creek, the Hatchie, Porters Creek, Cypress Creek and the Mississippi: about 980 river miles.
800 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ramer; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ramer has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 59 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Ramer normally reaches 62° and falls to 39°. The record high is 81°, in 1985; the record low 17°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.73 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1923 at Selmer, 6 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
