The Hugo 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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5.13 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1918. The next wettest, 3.73 inches, fell in 1985.
Hugo’s center stands about 550 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 450 ft to 610 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Round Mountain, about 800 ft, 15 miles east-northeast.
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 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mudstone, shale, limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Mudstone, shale, sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale, marlstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 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 Hugo reaches the Gulf of America by way of South Lake, the Kiamichi, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 710 river miles.
Lake on the way: South Lake.
550 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hugo; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hugo has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hugo normally reaches 64° and falls to 39°. The record high is 88°, in 1955; the record low 16°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.42 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1918 at Antlers, 16 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
