The Watson 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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18° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1959. Next is 21° in 1997.
Watson’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 140 ft to 170 ft, a difference of 30 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium - Alluvial deposits of local streams or of overbank flow of major streams (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 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.
Watson has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 55 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Watson normally reaches 63° and falls to 43°. The record high is 84°, in 1964; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.90 in, fell in 2005.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1959 at Rohwer 2 NNE, 6 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
