The Taylor 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.
Chance of showers
Showers likely; cooler
Mostly cloudy
Mostly sunny; warmer
Mostly cloudy
Chance of showers
Partly cloudy
24° on Nov. 13, 2013, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1980. Next is 24° in 2018.
Taylor’s center stands about 570 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 490 ft to 620 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Queen Hill, about 770 ft, 11 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows High gravel deposits, from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 52×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gravel. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Marlstone, chalk. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Clay, siltstone-mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, carbonate. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 72 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Paleocene to Eocene, 34 to 66 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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. 3 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 Taylor reaches the Gulf of America by way of Mustang Creek, Brushy Creek, the San Gabriel, the Little River and the Brazos: about 400 river miles.
320 miles of the trip are on the Brazos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Taylor; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Taylor has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in August; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 37 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Taylor normally reaches 70° and falls to 47°. The record high is 86°, in 2006; the record low 26°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.41 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1980 at Georgetown Lake, 20 miles west-northwest, 300 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
