The Happy 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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87° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1947. Next is 85° in 1967.
Happy’s center stands about 3,600 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,560 ft to 3,680 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 54×. 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 23 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 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 Happy reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,330 river miles.
1,040 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Happy; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Happy has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 11 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 20 inches of water.
On November 14 Happy normally reaches 61° and falls to 32°. The record high is 84°, in 2025; the record low 9°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.81 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Tulia, 15 miles south-southeast, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
