The Reklaw 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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21° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 25° in 1950.
Reklaw’s center stands about 310 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 240 ft to 390 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bradford Mountain, about 750 ft, 10 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Reklaw Formation (sandstone), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 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 37×. 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. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Siltstone, sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 0.8 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 Reklaw reaches the Gulf of America by way of White Oak Creek, Mud Creek, the Angelina and the Neches: about 280 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Ester Lake, 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 Reklaw; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Reklaw has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Reklaw normally reaches 66° and falls to 47°. The record high is 89°, in 1955; the record low 24°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.60 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 at Rusk, 10 miles west-southwest, 380 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
