The Bryson 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 1941. Next is 87° in 1955.
Bryson’s center stands about 1,290 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,150 ft to 1,380 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Indian Mountain, about 1,470 ft, 10 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Thrifty and Graham Formations, undivided (black-shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 47×. 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: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 23 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 Bryson reaches the Gulf of America by way of Board Tree Creek, Rock Creek and the Brazos: about 740 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Possum Kingdom Lake and Lake Granbury.
550 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bryson; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bryson has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 33 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Bryson normally reaches 66° and falls to 41°. The record high is 87°, in 1960; the record low 15°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.48 in, fell in 1991.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Jacksboro, 13 miles east-northeast, 210 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
