The Quail 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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90° on Nov. 17, 2021, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 89° in 1995.
Quail’s center stands about 2,240 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,130 ft to 2,330 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sand sheet deposits, from the Holocene, less than 12,000 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 35×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 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 Quail reaches the Gulf of America by way of Buck Creek, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,220 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Quail; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Quail has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in July; winter nights fall to about 25° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Quail normally reaches 64° and falls to 36°. The record high is 88°, in 1988; the record low 10°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.10 in, fell in 1924.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Memphis, 15 miles south-southwest, 180 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
