The Burton 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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18° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1963. Next is 19° in 2018.
Burton’s center stands about 440 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 340 ft to 540 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Oakville Sandstone (sandstone, clay), from the Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 61×. 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, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sand. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 28 to 38 million years old. About 0.4 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 Burton reaches the Gulf of America by way of Indian Creek, East Mill Creek, Mill Creek and the Brazos: about 200 river miles.
160 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Burton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Burton has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 98° in August; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 41 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Burton normally reaches 73° and falls to 45°. The record high is 89°, in 2005; the record low 19°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 2.10 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1963 at Somerville Dam, 11 miles north-northeast, 180 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
