The Lufkin 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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5.97 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1906. The next wettest, 4.87 inches, fell in 1987.
Lufkin’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 250 ft to 390 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Yegua Formation (claystone, sandstone), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 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.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 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 Lufkin reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Neches: about 240 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Sabine Lake and B A Steinhagen Lake.
110 miles of the trip are on the Neches.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lufkin; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lufkin has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lufkin normally reaches 69° and falls to 45°. The record high is 87°, in 1910; the record low 25°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 3.22 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1906 at Lufkin Angelina County Airport, 7 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
