The Oak Trail Shores 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.
88° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1902. Next is 87° in 1938.
Oak Trail Shores’s center stands about 810 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 690 ft to 900 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Comanche Peak, about 1,230 ft, 8 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Glen Rose Limestone (limestone, marlstone), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 41×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone, marlstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 0.9 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million 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 Oak Trail Shores reaches the Gulf of America by way of Lake Granbury and the Brazos: about 570 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Granbury.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Oak Trail Shores; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Oak Trail Shores has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 35 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Oak Trail Shores normally reaches 67° and falls to 43°. The record high is 85°, in 1989; the record low 18°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.46 in, fell in 1923.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 at Weatherford, 18 miles north-northeast, 150 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.