The New Chapel Hill 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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Chance of showers; warmer
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22° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1984. Next is 26° in 2014.
New Chapel Hill’s center stands about 430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 370 ft to 610 ft, a difference of 240 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Snow Mountain, about 660 ft, 14 miles south-southwest.
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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 0.5 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 New Chapel Hill reaches the Gulf of America by way of Prairie Creek, Mud Creek, the Angelina and the Neches: about 340 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Ester Lake, Sabine Lake, B A Steinhagen Lake and Lake Tyler.
110 miles of the trip are on the Neches.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New Chapel Hill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New Chapel Hill has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 38° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 New Chapel Hill normally reaches 67° and falls to 47°. The record high is 83°, in 2007; the record low 27°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.54 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1984 at Tyler, 8 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
