The Domino 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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21° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1947. Next is 23° in 1997.
Domino’s center stands about 260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 210 ft to 350 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Hickory Hill, about 460 ft, 6 miles west-southwest.
The section below crosses 9 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.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, fine-detrital. Age: Early Eocene, 48 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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. 3 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 Domino reaches the Gulf of America by way of Baker Creek, Baker Slough, the Sulphur, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 500 river miles.
320 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Domino; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Domino has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Domino normally reaches 65° and falls to 45°. The record high is 81°, in 2005; the record low 22°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.60 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Wright Patman Dm & Lk, 4 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
