The Latexo 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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5.34 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1904. The next wettest, 4.38 inches, fell in 1907.
Latexo’s center stands about 390 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 280 ft to 470 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Houston Mound, about 540 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cook Mountain Formation (claystone, sandstone), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 58×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 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 Latexo reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Sims Branch, Hurricane Bayou and the Trinity: about 260 river miles.
Lake on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake.
120 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Latexo; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Latexo has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Latexo normally reaches 69° and falls to 45°. The record high is 89°, in 1955; the record low 22°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.65 in, fell in 1927.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1904 at Crockett, 6 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
