The Lockney 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° on Nov. 14, 1976, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 6° in 1959.
Lockney’s center stands about 3,280 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,250 ft to 3,290 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
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.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.3 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.
Lockney has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 20 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Lockney normally reaches 62° and falls to 35°. The record high is 84°, in 2025; the record low 5°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.74 in, fell in 1947.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 at Floydada, 11 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
