The Streetman 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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4.23 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1893. The next wettest, 3.62 inches, fell in 1971.
Streetman’s center stands about 370 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 310 ft to 410 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bald Hill, about 600 ft, 15 miles west-southwest.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Streetman reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Sloan Creek, Tehuacana Creek and the Trinity: about 330 river miles.
Lake on the way: Woodlands Golf Course Lake.
120 miles of the trip are on the Trinity.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Streetman; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Streetman has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 96° in August; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 42 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Streetman normally reaches 68° and falls to 45°. The record high is 88°, in 2005; the record low 23°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.22 in, fell in 1902.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Corsicana, 19 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
