The West Orange 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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Mostly sunny; warmer
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26° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1969. Next is 29° in 1991.
West Orange’s center stands about 17 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 40 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly clay (clay, silt), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.2 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 West Orange reaches the Gulf of America by way of Adams Bayou and the Sabine: about 35 river miles.
Lake on the way: Sabine Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of West Orange; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Orange has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 40° in January. About 64 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 West Orange normally reaches 70° and falls to 47°. The record high is 85°, in 2005; the record low 26°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.25 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1969 at Orange 9 N, 10 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
