The Miles 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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3.59 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1897. The next wettest, 2.00 inches, fell in 1922.
Miles’s center stands about 1,810 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,740 ft to 1,860 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Kiser Mountain, about 2,320 ft, 11 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lingos Formation (sand), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 43×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 19 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.1 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 Miles reaches the Gulf of America by way of Battle Creek, Willow Creek, the Concho and the Colorado: about 670 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Buchanan Lake, Lake Marble Falls and Lake Lyndon B Johnson.
320 miles of the trip are on the Colorado.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Miles; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Miles has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. About 23 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Miles normally reaches 68° and falls to 42°. The record high is 87°, in 1989; the record low 17°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.80 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 at Ballinger 2 NW, 16 miles northeast, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
