The Kilgore 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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−22° on Nov. 14, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1889. Next is −18° in 1891.
Kilgore’s center stands about 2,920 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,870 ft to 3,070 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ogallala Group or Formation (siltstone-mudstone, conglomerate-sandstone), from the Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 37×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone-mudstone, conglomerate-sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 24 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 Kilgore reaches the Gulf of America by way of Minnechaduza Creek, the Niobrara, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 2,180 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lewis and Clark Lake.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kilgore; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kilgore has a dry-winter hot-summer continental climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 34 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 21 inches of water.
On November 14 Kilgore normally reaches 51° and falls to 22°. The record high is 81°, in 2025; the record low −22°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.38 in, fell in 1891.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1889 from the Valentine Area threaded record (Valentine Miller Field Airport, 21 miles east-southeast, 320 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
