The Nazareth 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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2° on Nov. 17, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1959. Next is 5° in 1976.
Nazareth’s center stands about 3,760 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,690 ft to 3,780 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 61×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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 Nazareth reaches the Gulf of America by way of Tule Creek, the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,350 river miles.
1,040 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Nazareth; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Nazareth has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 22° in January. A normal year brings about 10 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 21 inches of water.
On November 14 Nazareth normally reaches 61° and falls to 31°. The record high is 83°, in 2025; the record low 5°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.50 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1959 at Dimmitt, 11 miles west, 110 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
