The Barksdale 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. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1955. Next is 90° in 2024.
Barksdale’s center stands about 1,510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,450 ft to 2,050 ft, a difference of 600 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Housetop Mountain, about 2,330 ft, 3 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary deposit, undivided (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 21×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, marlstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 3 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 Barksdale reaches Corpus Christi Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the Nueces: about 390 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Corpus Christi.
320 miles of the trip are on the Nueces.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Barksdale; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Barksdale has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in August; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. About 29 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Barksdale normally reaches 69° and falls to 41°. The record high is 84°, in 2007; the record low 17°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.55 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1955 at Prade Ranch, 20 miles northeast, 540 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
