The Center Point 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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20° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1974. Next is 22° in 1987.
Center Point’s center stands about 1,530 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,470 ft to 1,850 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Turkey Knob, about 2,050 ft, 11 miles southeast.
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 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 24×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 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 Center Point reaches the Gulf of America by way of Verde Creek, the Guadalupe and the South Guadalupe: about 400 river miles.
Lake on the way: Canyon Lake.
300 miles of the trip are on the Guadalupe.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Center Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Center Point has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in August; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 31 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Center Point normally reaches 68° and falls to 44°. The record high is 85°, in 2005; the record low 20°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.73 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1974 at Kerrville 3 NNE, 10 miles north-northwest, 270 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
