The Slaton 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 1911. Next is 88° in 2017.
Slaton’s center stands about 3,090 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,970 ft to 3,120 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country.
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 35×. 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 18 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Triassic to Late Triassic, 208 to 247 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 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 Slaton reaches the Gulf of America by way of the North Fork Double Mountain Fork Brazos, the Double Mountain Fork Brazos and the Brazos: about 1,130 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 Slaton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Slaton has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 18 inches of water.
On November 14 Slaton normally reaches 64° and falls to 37°. The record high is 89°, in 2025; the record low 4°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 1.57 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 from the Lubbock Area threaded record (Lubbock International Airport, 19 miles north-northwest, 170 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
