The Cresson 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. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1985. Next is 21° in 1986.
Cresson’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 890 ft to 1,100 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Undivided part of Washita Group (clay), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 10 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 45×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Claystone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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. 4 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 Cresson reaches the Gulf of America by way of Fall Creek and the Brazos: about 550 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cresson; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cresson has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cresson normally reaches 67° and falls to 44°. The record high is 89°, in 1989; the record low 23°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1985 at Burleson, 16 miles east, 290 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
