The New Summerfield 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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19° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1953. Next is 24° in 1970.
New Summerfield’s center stands about 470 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 330 ft to 590 ft, a difference of 260 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Casey Mountain, about 690 ft, 14 miles west-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 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 45×. 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 8 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 5 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 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 New Summerfield reaches the Gulf of America by way of Caney Creek, Mud Creek, the Angelina and the Neches: about 310 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 New Summerfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New Summerfield has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 New Summerfield normally reaches 69° and falls to 43°. The record high is 88°, in 1955; the record low 19°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.14 in, fell in 1970.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1953 at Jacksonville, 11 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
