The Leon 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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Leon’s center stands about 810 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 700 ft to 930 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount View, about 1,300 ft, 10 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace Deposits (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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 39×. 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.
Sandstone, claystone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 6 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.
Clay. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 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 Leon reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 920 river miles.
780 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Leon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
