The Kilgore 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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19° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1902. Next is 20° in 1916.
Kilgore’s center stands about 370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 290 ft to 470 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is East Mountain, about 650 ft, 15 miles north.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Reklaw Formation (sandstone), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 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 57×. 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. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
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 2 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 Kilgore reaches the Gulf of America by way of Bighead Creek, Rabbit Creek and the Sabine: about 340 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Toledo Bend Reservoir and Sabine Lake.
140 miles of the trip are on the Sabine.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kilgore; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kilgore has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kilgore normally reaches 68° and falls to 45°. The record high is 89°, in 1955; the record low 22°, in 1907. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 from the Longview Area threaded record (Longview E Tx Regional Airport, 9 miles east). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
