The Pleasant 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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5.97 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1906. The next wettest, 4.87 inches, fell in 1987.
Pleasant Hill’s center stands about 230 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 170 ft to 320 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Whitsett Formation (clay, sand), from the Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 28 to 38 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Clay, sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sand. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Late Eocene to Early Oligocene, 28 to 38 million 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. 3 smaller units 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 Pleasant Hill reaches the Gulf of America by way of Creeds Creek, Bear Creek, Piney Creek and the Neches: about 220 river miles.
Lakes on the way: 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 Pleasant Hill; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pleasant Hill has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pleasant Hill normally reaches 69° and falls to 45°. The record high is 87°, in 1910; the record low 25°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 3.22 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1906 at Lufkin Angelina County Airport, 16 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
