The Mansfield 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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20° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1985. Next is 21° in 1986.
Mansfield’s center stands about 620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 580 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Brushy Mound, about 910 ft, 12 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Woodbine Formation (sandstone-mudstone), from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Black-shale, siltstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 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 Mansfield reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Walnut Creek, Mountain Creek and the Trinity: about 480 river miles.
Lake on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake.
270 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mansfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mansfield has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Mansfield normally reaches 67° and falls to 44°. The record high is 89°, in 1989; the record low 23°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1985 at Burleson, 12 miles west-southwest, 140 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
