The Roosevelt 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.
Roosevelt’s center stands about 1,460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,430 ft to 1,760 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Pinchot, about 2,430 ft, 15 miles east-southeast.
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 35×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Middle Cambrian, 497 to 521 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gabbro, anorthosite, diorite. Age: Early Cambrian, 521 to 542 million years old. About 0.7 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 Roosevelt reaches the Gulf of America by way of West Otter Creek, Otter Creek, the North Fork Red, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,170 river miles.
Lake on the way: Tom Steed Reservoir.
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 Roosevelt; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt 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, 10 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
