The Priddy 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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18° on Nov. 17, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1923. Next is 20° in 2019.
Priddy’s center stands about 1,560 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,420 ft to 1,700 ft, a difference of 280 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Spur Mountain, about 1,810 ft, 11 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Walnut Clay (limestone, shale), 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 33×. 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, claystone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Claystone. 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 1 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
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 Priddy reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Mountain Creek, the South Leon, the Leon, the Little River and the Brazos: about 640 river miles.
Lake on the way: Belton Lake.
320 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Priddy; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Priddy has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 33° in January. About 30 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Priddy normally reaches 67° and falls to 44°. The record high is 86°, in 1989; the record low 22°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 3.11 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1923 at Goldthwaite 1 WSW, 17 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
