The Nacogdoches 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.
Mostly sunny
Showers likely; cooler
Showers likely
Sunny; warmer
Partly cloudy
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24° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 25° in 1997.
Nacogdoches’s center stands about 300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 260 ft to 460 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Flower Mountain, about 740 ft, 14 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace deposits (sand), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 50×. 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. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 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 Nacogdoches reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Bayou La Nana, the Angelina and the Neches: about 240 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Ester Lake, Sabine Lake and B A Steinhagen Lake.
110 miles of the trip are on the Neches.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Nacogdoches; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Nacogdoches has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Nacogdoches normally reaches 68° and falls to 45°. The record high is 86°, in 2025; the record low 27°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 1.41 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Nacogdoches, here, 140 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
