The Tula 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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11° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 15° in 1940.
Tula’s center stands about 430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 320 ft to 560 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Thacker Mountain, about 630 ft, 14 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wilcox formation (sand, clay), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 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.
Sand, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Claystone, clay. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 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 Tula reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Yocona, the Tallahatchie, the Yazoo and the Mississippi: about 760 river miles.
Lake on the way: Enid Lake.
450 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Tula; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Tula has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Tula normally reaches 65° and falls to 40°. The record high is 86°, in 1955; the record low 12°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 4.70 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at University, 13 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
