The Coupland 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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24° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 25° in 2014.
Coupland’s center stands about 540 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 490 ft to 610 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Yegua Knobbs, about 740 ft, 15 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Navarro and Taylor Groups, undivided (siltstone-mudstone), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Siltstone-mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Paleocene to Eocene, 34 to 66 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 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. 2 smaller units 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 Coupland reaches the Gulf of America by way of Brushy Creek, the San Gabriel, the Little River and the Brazos: about 400 river miles.
320 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Coupland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Coupland has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in August; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Coupland normally reaches 72° and falls to 47°. The record high is 89°, in 2020; the record low 24°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.87 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 from the Austin-Bergstrom Airport Area threaded record (Austin-Camp Mabry, 24 miles west-southwest, 130 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
