The Weed 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.
Partly cloudy
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Mostly sunny
Weed’s center stands about 7,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 6,810 ft to 7,860 ft, a difference of 1,050 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Prestridge Hill, about 8,660 ft, 7 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows San Andres Formation (limestone, dolostone), from the Permian, 260 to 290 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 6×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Permian, 260 to 290 million years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Sandstone, carbonate, evaporite. Age: Permian, 273 to 290 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 Weed reaches the Gulf of America by way of Agua Chiquita Creek, the Rio Peñasco, the Pecos and the Rio Grande: about 1,230 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 Weed; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
