The Westmoreland 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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10° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1946. Next is 14° in 1950.
Westmoreland’s center stands about 910 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 740 ft to 1,010 ft, a difference of 270 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gravely Hill, about 1,100 ft, 6 miles south-southeast.
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 5 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.
Chert. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, calcarenite. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 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 Westmoreland reaches the Gulf of America by way of Davis Branch, Trammel Creek, Drakes Creek, the Barren, the Green River, the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,410 river miles.
970 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Westmoreland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Westmoreland has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 87° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 8 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 54 inches of water.
On November 14 Westmoreland normally reaches 59° and falls to 37°. The record high is 77°, in 1964; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.90 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1946 at Scottsville, 13 miles north, 170 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
