The Hutchins 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.
Mostly cloudy
Showers likely; cooler
Partly cloudy
Sunny
Mostly cloudy
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
20° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1940. Next is 22° in 2014.
Hutchins’s center stands about 460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 370 ft to 570 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Chalk Hill, about 660 ft, 13 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Austin Chalk (marlstone, chalk), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
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 53×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Marlstone, chalk. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 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 Hutchins reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the Trinity: about 430 river miles.
Lake on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake.
250 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hutchins; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hutchins has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in August; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 41 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hutchins normally reaches 68° and falls to 45°. The record high is 89°, in 1989; the record low 25°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.32 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1940 at Ferris, 8 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
