The Crosbyton 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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88° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 86° in 1995.
Crosbyton’s center stands about 3,020 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,850 ft to 3,050 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
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 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.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic, 208 to 247 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 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 Crosbyton reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sand Rock Creek, the White River, the Salt Fork Brazos and the Brazos: about 1,090 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Possum Kingdom Lake and Lake Granbury.
550 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Crosbyton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Crosbyton has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Crosbyton normally reaches 64° and falls to 36°. The record high is 85°, in 2025; the record low 9°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.86 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Crosbyton, 2 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
