The Friendship 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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94° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1938. Next is 89° in 1944.
Friendship’s center stands about 1,390 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,340 ft to 1,470 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is King Mountain, about 2,380 ft, 13 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Hennessey Group (shale), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 46×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.5 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 Friendship reaches the Gulf of America by way of Stinking Creek, the North Fork Red, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,140 river miles.
960 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Friendship; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Friendship has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Friendship normally reaches 64° and falls to 38°. The record high is 89°, in 2025; the record low 18°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.86 in, fell in 1947.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1938 at Tipton 4 S Mesonet, 19 miles south-southeast, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
