The Jayton 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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91° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1910. Next is 88° in 1965.
Jayton’s center stands about 2,000 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,870 ft to 2,070 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Tater Hills, about 2,240 ft, 15 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Whitehorse Group, undivided (sandstone, shale), from the Permian, 252 to 299 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 44×. 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, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.6 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 Jayton reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Duck Creek, the Salt Fork Brazos and the Brazos: about 1,010 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Possum Kingdom Lake and Lake Granbury.
550 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Jayton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Jayton has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 23 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Jayton normally reaches 67° and falls to 38°. The record high is 86°, in 2025; the record low 12°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.22 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1910 at Jayton, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
