The Fort Stockton 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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23° on Nov. 17, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 24° in 1997.
Fort Stockton’s center stands about 2,990 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,900 ft to 3,140 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Twelvemile Mesa, about 3,740 ft, 11 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), 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 20×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Claystone, limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous to Late Cretaceous, 66 to 145 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, 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 Fort Stockton reaches the Gulf of America by way of Comanche Creek, the Pecos and the Rio Grande: about 860 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Paz Ramirez Lake and Amistad Reservoir.
270 miles of the trip are on the Rio Grande.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Fort Stockton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Fort Stockton has a hot semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in June; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 13 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Fort Stockton normally reaches 69° and falls to 44°. The record high is 88°, in 2025; the record low 26°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.66 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Fort Stockton Pecos County Airport, 2 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
