The Groveton 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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Groveton’s center stands about 340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 270 ft to 390 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Manning Formation (sandstone-mudstone), from the Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 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.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 28 to 38 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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. 1 smaller unit 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 Groveton reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Kickapoo Creek and the Trinity: about 160 river miles.
Lake on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake.
120 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Groveton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
