The Nesbitt 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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17° on Nov. 16, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 20° in 1932.
Nesbitt’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 550 ft, a difference of 310 ft: rolling country.
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 53×. 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 9 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 4 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 0.9 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 Nesbitt reaches the Gulf of America by way of Rainey Creek, Little Cypress Bayou, Big Cypress Bayou, Twelvemile Bayou, Cross Bayou, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 480 river miles.
Lake on the way: Clear Lake.
260 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Nesbitt; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Nesbitt has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Nesbitt normally reaches 68° and falls to 42°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 18°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.90 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Marshall, 10 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
