The Hot Springs Landing 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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84° on Nov. 14, 2017, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 81° in 1973.
Hot Springs Landing’s center stands about 4,520 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,330 ft to 4,720 ft, a difference of 390 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Caballo Cone, about 6,010 ft, 7 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Upper Santa Fe Group (conglomerate-sandstone, coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Late Miocene to Pleistocene, 0.1 to 7.2 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 11×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Conglomerate-sandstone, coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Late Miocene to Pleistocene, 0.1 to 7.2 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sedimentary. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Unconsolidated. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate, shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Mixed-clastic, fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Late Oligocene to Pleistocene, 0.1 to 28 million years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Hot Springs Landing reaches the Gulf of America by way of Elephant Butte Reservoir and the Rio Grande: about 1,400 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Paz Ramirez Lake, Amistad Reservoir, Elephant Butte Reservoir and Caballo Reservoir.
760 miles of the trip are on the Rio Grande.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hot Springs Landing; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hot Springs Landing has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in June; winter nights fall to about 29° in December. About 9 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hot Springs Landing normally reaches 64° and falls to 37°. The record high is 84°, in 2017; the record low 24°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.59 in, fell in 1961.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Truth Or Consequences Municipal Airport, 4 miles west-northwest, 300 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
