The Ratliff City 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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Sunny
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90° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 89° in 1911.
Ratliff City’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,100 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Garber Sandstone (sandstone, conglomerate), from the Permian, 252 to 299 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 49×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Shale, sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone, sandstone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Limestone, conglomerate, dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 0.8 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 Ratliff City reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sandy Bear Creek, the Washita, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 950 river miles.
680 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ratliff City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ratliff City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 37 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Ratliff City normally reaches 65° and falls to 38°. The record high is 83°, in 1973; the record low 12°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.70 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1894 at Healdton 3 E, 16 miles south-southeast, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
