The Comfort 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.
Comfort’s center stands about 1,450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,380 ft to 1,720 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Turkey Knob, about 2,050 ft, 9 miles south.
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 28×. 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 20 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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.
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 Comfort reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Guadalupe and the South Guadalupe: about 390 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 Comfort; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Comfort 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 Comfort 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, 14 miles west-northwest, 350 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
