The Roscoe 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 1935. Next is 84° in 1955.
Roscoe’s center stands about 2,380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,350 ft to 2,430 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bench Mountain, about 2,600 ft, 10 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ogallala Formation (sand), from the Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 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 40×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic, 208 to 247 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sandstone, claystone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 0.9 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 Roscoe reaches the Gulf of America by way of Cottonwood Creek, the Clear Fork and the Brazos: about 1,050 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Possum Kingdom Lake and Lake Granbury.
550 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Roscoe; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Roscoe has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 31° in January. About 21 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Roscoe normally reaches 65° and falls to 41°. The record high is 83°, in 1989; the record low 12°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.90 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1935 at Roscoe, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
