The New London 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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20° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1908. Next is 21° in 2018.
New London’s center stands about 540 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 390 ft to 570 ft, a difference of 180 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 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.
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.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
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 London reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Rabbit Creek, Rabbit Creek and the Sabine: about 350 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Toledo Bend Reservoir and Sabine Lake.
140 miles of the trip are on the Sabine.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New London; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New London has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 New London normally reaches 68° and falls to 44°. The record high is 87°, in 1955; the record low 20°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1915.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1908 at Henderson, 10 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
