The Denver City 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 1986. Next is 86° in 2021.
Denver City’s center stands about 3,580 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,510 ft to 3,620 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sand sheet deposits, from the Holocene, less than 12,000 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 59×. 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: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 1 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 Denver City reaches the Gulf of America by way of Beals Creek and the Colorado: about 1,000 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Buchanan Lake, Lake Marble Falls, E V Spence Reservoir and Lake Lyndon B Johnson.
320 miles of the trip are on the Colorado.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Denver City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Denver City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. About 19 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 5 inches of snow.
On November 14 Denver City normally reaches 65° and falls to 36°. The record high is 86°, in 2025; the record low 18°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.35 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1986 at Denver City, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
