The Tatums 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.
Tatums’s center stands about 970 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 880 ft to 1,090 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Table Hill, about 1,300 ft, 14 miles north.
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 41×. 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 7 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 4 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 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, conglomerate, dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 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 Tatums reaches the Gulf of America by way of Flat Creek, Sandy Bear Creek, the Washita, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 940 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 Tatums; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Tatums 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 Tatums 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 south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
