The Wells 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.
Partly cloudy
Showers likely; cooler
Showers likely
Sunny; warmer
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
Mostly sunny
24° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 25° in 1997.
Wells’s center stands about 340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 250 ft to 370 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cook Mountain Formation (claystone, sandstone), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.5 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 Wells reaches the Gulf of America by way of Red Bayou, Bodan Creek and the Neches: about 260 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Sabine Lake and B A Steinhagen Lake.
110 miles of the trip are on the Neches.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wells; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wells has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wells normally reaches 68° and falls to 45°. The record high is 86°, in 2025; the record low 27°, in 2000. The most rain on this date, 1.41 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Nacogdoches, 20 miles east-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
