The Laughlin AFB 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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25° on Nov. 16, 1916, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 25° in 2018.
Laughlin AFB’s center stands about 1,080 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 990 ft to 1,150 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Uvalde Gravel, from the Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 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 38×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gravel. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Black-shale, siltstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.5 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 Laughlin AFB reaches the Gulf of America by way of Sacatosa Creek and the Rio Grande: about 560 river miles.
Lake on the way: Paz Ramirez Lake.
270 miles of the trip are on the Rio Grande.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Laughlin AFB; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Laughlin AFB has a hot semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 101° in August; winter nights fall to about 44° in January. About 20 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Laughlin AFB normally reaches 75° and falls to 53°. The record high is 90°, in 1921; the record low 25°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 from the Del Rio Area threaded record (Del Rio International Airport, 9 miles west). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
