The Midway 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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21° on Nov. 13, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1918. Next is 22° in 1950.
Midway’s center stands about 260 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 160 ft to 290 ft, a difference of 130 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 13 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 0.4 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 Midway reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Gin Creek, Youngs Creek and the Trinity: about 200 river miles.
Lake on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake.
120 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Midway; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Midway has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Midway normally reaches 71° and falls to 45°. The record high is 90°, in 1955; the record low 23°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 3.00 in, fell in 2000.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1918 at Madisonville, 11 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
