The Briar 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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89° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1940. Next is 86° in 1950.
Briar’s center stands about 750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 640 ft to 870 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Indian Knob, about 1,270 ft, 13 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Paluxy Sand (sandstone), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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 40×. 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. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 0.9 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 Briar reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Hog Branch, the West Fork Trinity and the Trinity: about 540 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake, Eagle Mountain Lake and Lake Worth.
270 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Briar; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Briar has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 35 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Briar normally reaches 67° and falls to 46°. The record high is 86°, in 1999; the record low 22°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.61 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1940 at Fort Worth Meacham Field, 16 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
