The Roaring Springs 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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91° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1947. Next is 88° in 1995.
Roaring Springs’s center stands about 2,510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,390 ft to 2,710 ft, a difference of 320 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Antelope Hill, about 2,700 ft, 14 miles north-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lingos Formation (sand), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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 22×. 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: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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.
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 Roaring Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of Dutchman Creek, the Tongue River, the Middle Pease, the Pease, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,260 river miles.
950 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Roaring Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Roaring Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. A normal year brings about 6 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 23 inches of water.
On November 14 Roaring Springs normally reaches 64° and falls to 38°. The record high is 88°, in 2025; the record low 13°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.73 in, fell in 1985.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Matador, 9 miles north-northeast, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
