The Lake Worth 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. 17, 2019, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1949. Next is 90° in 2013.
Lake Worth’s center stands about 660 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 790 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Burton Knob, about 910 ft, 13 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace deposits (sand), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 31×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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. 3 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Lake Worth reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Lake Worth, the West Fork Trinity and the Trinity: about 520 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake and Lake Worth.
270 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lake Worth; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lake Worth has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 33 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lake Worth normally reaches 69° and falls to 48°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 25°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.78 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1949 at Fort Worth Nas, 3 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
