The Canyon Lake 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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3.95 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1961. The next wettest, 3.67 inches, fell in 2004.
Canyon Lake’s center stands about 940 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,230 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Twin Sisters, about 1,740 ft, 13 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Glen Rose Limestone (limestone, marlstone), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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 26×. 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 14 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 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 Canyon Lake reaches the Gulf of America by way of Canyon Lake, the Guadalupe and the South Guadalupe: about 300 river miles.
Lake on the way: Canyon Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Canyon Lake; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Canyon Lake has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 40° in January. About 38 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Canyon Lake normally reaches 70° and falls to 50°. The record high is 86°, in 2011; the record low 27°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1961 at Canyon Dam, 4 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
