The Longview 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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4.68 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1902. The next wettest, 4.27 inches, fell in 1985.
Longview’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 270 ft to 430 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is East Mountain, about 650 ft, 10 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Queen City Sand (siltstone, sandstone), from the Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 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 48×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 0.7 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 Longview reaches the Gulf of America by way of Grace Creek and the Sabine: about 340 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Toledo Bend Reservoir and Sabine Lake.
140 miles of the trip are on the Sabine.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Longview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Longview has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Longview normally reaches 68° and falls to 43°. The record high is 89°, in 1955; the record low 22°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 at Longview, 2 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
