The Buchanan Lake Village 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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19° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 22° in 1920.
Buchanan Lake Village’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 990 ft to 1,290 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Indian Hills, about 1,650 ft, 11 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Town Mountain Granite, from the Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 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 31×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Cambrian to Early Ordovician, 471 to 497 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Cambrian, 497 to 521 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Paragneiss. Age: Proterozoic, 542 to 2,500 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. 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 Buchanan Lake Village reaches the Gulf of America by way of Buchanan Lake and the Colorado: about 410 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Buchanan Lake, Lake Marble Falls and Lake Lyndon B Johnson.
320 miles of the trip are on the Colorado.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Buchanan Lake Village; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Buchanan Lake Village has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Buchanan Lake Village normally reaches 68° and falls to 45°. The record high is 88°, in 1903; the record low 19°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.53 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Burnet, 14 miles east-southeast, 240 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
