The Lewisville 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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Lewisville’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 380 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Krause Hill, about 480 ft, 15 miles west-northwest.
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.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand, fine-detrital. Age: Early Eocene, 48 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 2 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 Lewisville reaches the Gulf of America by way of Steel Creek, Bodcau Creek, Bodcau Bayou, Red Chute Bayou, Loggy Bayou, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 500 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Erling.
230 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lewisville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
