The Scottsville 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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17° on Nov. 16, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 20° in 1932.
Scottsville’s center stands about 420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 280 ft to 450 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
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 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.
Mudstone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 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 Scottsville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Eightmile Creek and the Sabine: about 310 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Toledo Bend Reservoir and Sabine Lake.
140 miles of the trip are on the Sabine.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Scottsville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Scottsville has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Scottsville normally reaches 68° and falls to 42°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.90 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Marshall, 6 miles southwest, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
