The Center Point 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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21° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1960. Next is 23° in 1997.
Center Point’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 60 ft to 150 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Prairie Terraces (clay, silt, sand), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 Center Point reaches the Gulf of America by way of Wiggins Bayou, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 210 river miles.
100 miles of the trip are on the Atchafalaya.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Center Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Center Point has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 57 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Center Point normally reaches 70° and falls to 43°. The record high is 82°, in 2011; the record low 24°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 2.41 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1960 at Alexandria Esler Field, 11 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
