The Mineola 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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87° on Nov. 14, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1989. Next is 84° in 1989.
Mineola’s center stands about 420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 320 ft to 530 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Queen City Sand (siltstone, sandstone), from the Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 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 58×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 0.3 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 Mineola reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Sabine: about 420 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Toledo Bend Reservoir and Sabine Lake.
190 miles of the trip are on the Sabine.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mineola; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mineola has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 45 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Mineola normally reaches 66° and falls to 46°. The record high is 87°, in 2005; the record low 29°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.65 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1989 at Lake Fork Reservoir, 11 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
