The Taylor 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. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 19° in 1960.
Taylor’s center stands about 250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 220 ft to 320 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 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: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.6 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 Taylor reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Crooked Creek, Crooked Creek, the Bayou Dorcheat, Loggy Bayou, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 460 river miles.
Lake on the way: Tadpole Lake.
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 Taylor; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Taylor has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in August; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Taylor normally reaches 66° and falls to 40°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 2.10 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Magnolia, 20 miles northeast, 120 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
