The Lone Wolf 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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92° on Nov. 17, 2017, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1910. Next is 86° in 2021.
Lone Wolf’s center stands about 1,570 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,530 ft to 1,700 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is King Mountain, about 2,380 ft, 9 miles south-southwest.
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 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 31×. 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 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Middle Cambrian, 497 to 521 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 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. 3 smaller units 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 Lone Wolf reaches the Gulf of America by way of Tepee Creek, the North Fork Red, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,190 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 Lone Wolf; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lone Wolf 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 Lone Wolf normally reaches 62° and falls to 39°. The record high is 84°, in 2020; the record low 14°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.47 in, fell in 1924.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1910 at Hobart Municipal Airport, 11 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
