The Kress 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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86° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1908. Next is 85° in 1956.
Kress’s center stands about 3,470 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,430 ft to 3,520 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
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.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 24 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.
Kress has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 26° in January. A normal year brings about 8 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 19 inches of water.
On November 14 Kress normally reaches 62° and falls to 36°. The record high is 84°, in 2025; the record low 6°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.83 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1908 at Plainview, 12 miles south-southeast, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
