The Crowell 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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93° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 89° in 1988.
Crowell’s center stands about 1,480 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,410 ft to 1,580 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary deposit, undivided (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old.
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 38×. 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: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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 Crowell reaches the Gulf of America by way of Beaver Creek, the Wichita, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,200 river miles.
870 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Crowell; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Crowell has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 29° in January. About 25 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 1 inch of snow.
On November 14 Crowell normally reaches 66° and falls to 40°. The record high is 86°, in 1989; the record low 18°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.69 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Truscott 3 W, 18 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
