The Mineral Wells 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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91° on Nov. 17, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 89° in 1950.
Mineral Wells’s center stands about 890 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 840 ft to 1,120 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Slipdown Mountain, about 1,370 ft, 15 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mineral Wells Formation (sandstone, limestone), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
The section below crosses 7 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.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 0.7 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Mineral Wells reaches the Gulf of America by way of Rock Creek and the Brazos: about 620 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Granbury.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Mineral Wells; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Mineral Wells has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Mineral Wells normally reaches 68° and falls to 43°. The record high is 87°, in 1989; the record low 19°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 2.36 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Mineral Wells Airport, 4 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
