The Lueders 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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90° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 87° in 2021.
Lueders’s center stands about 1,570 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,500 ft to 1,630 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Clear Fork Group (claystone), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 55×. 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. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Conglomerate. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 Lueders reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Clear Fork and the Brazos: about 920 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Possum Kingdom Lake and Lake Granbury.
550 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lueders; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lueders has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 26 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Lueders normally reaches 66° and falls to 40°. The record high is 85°, in 2025; the record low 20°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.89 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 at Stamford 1, 14 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
