The Groom 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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Groom’s center stands about 3,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,190 ft to 3,310 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 34×. 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 8 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.4 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 Groom reaches the Gulf of America by way of McClellan Creek, the North Fork Red, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,370 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Altus.
960 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Groom; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
