The Prichard 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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13° on Nov. 14, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1891. Next is 13° in 2019.
Prichard’s center stands about 590 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 530 ft to 1,000 ft, a difference of 470 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Saddle Knob, about 1,220 ft, 15 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary Alluvium (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 34×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale, siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.4 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 Prichard reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Ohio and the Mississippi: about 1,640 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 Prichard; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Prichard has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 86° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 20 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 45 inches of water.
On November 14 Prichard normally reaches 57° and falls to 37°. The record high is 82°, in 1993; the record low 13°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.51 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 from the Huntington Area threaded record (Huntington Tri-State Airport, 9 miles north-northeast, 230 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
