The Beaumont 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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84° on Nov. 11, 1989, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1895. Next is 83° in 2016.
Beaumont’s center stands about 1,590 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,360 ft to 1,650 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Chase Group (shale, limestone), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
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 36×. 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, limestone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.9 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 Beaumont reaches the Gulf of America by way of North Branch Hickory Creek, Hickory Creek, the Little Walnut, the Walnut, the Arkansas and the Mississippi: about 1,370 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Murray Lake and Ozark Lake.
600 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Beaumont; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Beaumont has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 9 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 40 inches of water.
On November 14 Beaumont normally reaches 58° and falls to 32°. The record high is 82°, in 1999; the record low 6°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1909.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 at Eureka 1 E, 19 miles northeast, 490 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
