The Rockwell Place 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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85° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1923. Next is 84° in 1966.
Rockwell Place’s center stands about 3,630 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,460 ft to 3,680 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 26×. 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: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic, 208 to 247 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 0.3 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 Rockwell Place reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Prairie Dog Town Fork Red, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,340 river miles.
1,040 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Rockwell Place; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rockwell Place has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 23° in January. A normal year brings about 8 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 18 inches of water.
On November 14 Rockwell Place normally reaches 62° and falls to 33°. The record high is 82°, in 2025; the record low 9°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.00 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1923 at Canyon, 4 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
