The Ringgold 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. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 89° in 1911.
Ringgold’s center stands about 900 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 820 ft to 950 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Queens Peak, about 1,150 ft, 14 miles south-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Nocona Formation (claystone), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Claystone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million 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.
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 Ringgold reaches the Gulf of America by way of Beaver Creek, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 970 river miles.
830 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ringgold; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ringgold has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 35 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ringgold normally reaches 65° and falls to 41°. The record high is 84°, in 1955; the record low 17°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1909.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 at Bowie, 19 miles south-southeast, 180 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
