The Hope 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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85° on Nov. 14, 1981, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 84° in 1942.
Hope’s center stands about 4,090 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,980 ft to 4,200 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Piedmont alluvial deposits (unconsolidated), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 18×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Permian, 260 to 290 million years old. About 7 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 Hope reaches the Gulf of America by way of Eagle Creek, the Pecos and the Rio Grande: about 1,170 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Paz Ramirez Lake, Amistad Reservoir, Red Bluff Reservoir and Lake McMillan.
410 miles of the trip are on the Pecos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hope; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hope has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in June; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 13 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Hope normally reaches 66° and falls to 38°. The record high is 85°, in 1981; the record low 8°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.20 in, fell in 2003.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Hope, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
