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Tombigbee National Forest

NatalieMaynor from Jackson, Mississippi, USA · CC BY 2.0

94% trees around it and 253 species recorded.

87Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km94%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded253
  • Altitude122 m

The forest around

94% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 81%Grassland 19%Trees 96%Grassland 4%Trees 98%Grassland 2%Trees 90%Grassland 9%Water 0%Built-up 0%94%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km81%
  • 1–3 km96%
  • 3–6 km98%
  • 6–10 km90%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees96%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water0%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

253 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Slender Wood Sedge
Slender Wood SedgeCarex digitalis15 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Hylodesmum pauciflorum
Hylodesmum pauciflorumHylodesmum pauciflorum12 recordsFritzflohrreynolds · CC BY-SA 3.0
Sharpscale sedge
Sharpscale sedgeCarex oxylepis10 recordsInternet Archive Book Images · Public domain
Eastern narrowleaf sedge
Eastern narrowleaf sedgeCarex amphibola9 recordsUniversity of Iowa · No restrictions
Broad beechfern
Broad beechfernPhegopteris hexagonoptera7 recordsJaknouse at English Wikipedia · Public domain
Swamp Maple
Swamp MapleAcer rubrum7 recordsFtlombardo · CC BY 3.0
White Baneberry
White BaneberryActaea pachypoda7 recordsD. Gordon E. Robertson · CC BY-SA 3.0
American witchhazel
American witchhazelHamamelis virginiana6 recordsFranz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen · Public domain
Hylodesmum glutinosum
Hylodesmum glutinosumHylodesmum glutinosum6 recordsMelissa McMasters from Memphis, TN, United States · CC BY 2.0
Whitetinge sedge
Whitetinge sedgeCarex albicans5 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
Kral's sedgeCarex kraliana28 records
Cumberland sedgeCarex cumberlandensis15 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

87out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 94%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 253Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 122 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March and in November.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan12°1°122 mm
  2. Feb14°3°147 mm
  3. Mar19°7°135 mm
  4. Apr24°11°140 mm
  5. May28°16°110 mm
  6. Jun32°20°113 mm
  7. Jul34°22°125 mm
  8. Aug34°21°112 mm
  9. Sep31°18°98 mm
  10. Oct25°12°101 mm
  11. Nov18°6°99 mm
  12. Dec13°2°139 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Tombigbee National Forest.

National forest in Mississippi, US

Tombigbee National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 94% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

253 species have been recorded around it: 181 plants, 5 fungi, 67 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Slender Wood Sedge, Hylodesmum pauciflorum and Sharpscale sedge.

The best time to walk is in March and in November.

Blackwood Cemetery (222326497)
NatalieMaynor from Jackson, Mississippi, USA · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Tombigbee National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 2campsites within 10 kmTombigbee National Forest - Choctaw Lake Campground, Choctaw Lake Recreation Area
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • places to stay within 10 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

In our other atlases

Around Tombigbee National Forest.

The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

Peakyas1 mountains within 25 km
Noxubee Hills16 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Choctaw Lake0.3 km² · 9.8 km

Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Choctaw Lake
Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Davis Lake Mississippi
Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Other forests nearby.

Tombigbee National Forest

United States

  • 87Forestyas Score
  • 94%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 253Species

Bienville National Forest

United States · 116 km

  • 78Forestyas Score
  • 84%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 36Species

See the guide

Delta National Forest

United States · 170 km

  • 76Forestyas Score
  • 100%Trees
  • 84%Wild
  • 73Species

See the guide

William B. Bankhead National Forest

United States · 193 km

  • 83Forestyas Score
  • 93%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 103Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q7818683) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species1,344 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

The family

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