The Springer 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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90° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1894. Next is 89° in 1911.
Springer’s center stands about 920 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 790 ft to 1,110 ft, a difference of 320 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Dornick Hills Group (shale, limestone, conglomerate), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 12 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 28×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Black-shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone, conglomerate, dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone, conglomerate. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 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.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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. 6 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 Springer reaches the Gulf of America by way of Bullhead Creek, Caddo Creek, the Washita, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 900 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 Springer; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Springer 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 Springer 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, 17 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
