The Red Chute 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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25° on Nov. 14, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1966. Next is 26° in 1989.
Red Chute’s center stands about 220 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 160 ft to 270 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Giddens Hill, about 420 ft, 5 miles east.
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.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, lignite. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 2 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 Red Chute reaches the Gulf of America by way of Red Chute Bayou, Loggy Bayou, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 410 river miles.
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 Red Chute; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Red Chute has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Red Chute normally reaches 68° and falls to 45°. The record high is 85°, in 1993; the record low 25°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 1.13 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1966 at Red River Research Station, 9 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
