The Paradise 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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Paradise’s center stands about 770 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 700 ft to 850 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Indian Knob, about 1,270 ft, 14 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Twin Mountains Formation (claystone, sandstone), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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 47×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Limestone, marlstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone, claystone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 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 Paradise reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the West Fork Trinity and the Trinity: about 560 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake, Eagle Mountain Lake and Lake Worth.
270 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Paradise; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
