The Waverly 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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Waverly’s center stands about 530 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 410 ft to 760 ft, a difference of 350 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Slaughter Hill, about 840 ft, 7 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Fort Payne Formation and Chattanooga Shale (chert), from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 38×. 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. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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.
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 Waverly reaches the Gulf of America by way of Trace Creek, the Tennessee, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,130 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Waverly; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
