The Stamford 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. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 87° in 2021.
Stamford’s center stands about 1,450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,400 ft to 1,500 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Clear Fork Group (claystone), from the Permian, 252 to 299 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 61×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
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 Stamford reaches the Gulf of America by way of Lake Stamford, Paint Creek, the Clear Fork and the Brazos: about 890 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Possum Kingdom Lake, Lake Granbury and Lake Stamford.
550 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Stamford; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Stamford has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 26 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 4 inches of snow.
On November 14 Stamford normally reaches 66° and falls to 40°. The record high is 85°, in 2025; the record low 20°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.89 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 at Stamford 1, 14 miles west-southwest, 160 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
