The Hayes 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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27° on Nov. 15, 1940, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1901. Next is 27° in 2019.
Hayes’s center stands about 13 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 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 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.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 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 Hayes reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Bayou Lacassine and the Mermentau: about 55 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hayes; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hayes has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hayes normally reaches 72° and falls to 51°. The record high is 85°, in 2005; the record low 27°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.21 in, fell in 1929.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1901 at Lake Arthur 7 SW, 11 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
