The Tahoka 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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89° on Nov. 16, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1913. Next is 86° in 2021.
Tahoka’s center stands about 3,100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,960 ft to 3,140 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently 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 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.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 12 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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.
Tahoka has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 28° in January. About 21 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 5 inches of snow.
On November 14 Tahoka normally reaches 65° and falls to 38°. The record high is 85°, in 2025; the record low 4°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1913 at Tahoka, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
