The Wichita Falls 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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92° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 87° in 2021.
Wichita Falls’s center stands about 960 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 930 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Terrace deposits (sand), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Shale. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Permian, 252 to 299 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 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 Wichita Falls reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Wichita, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 1,060 river miles.
870 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wichita Falls; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wichita Falls has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 3 inches of snow.
On November 14 Wichita Falls normally reaches 66° and falls to 41°. The record high is 88°, in 2025; the record low 19°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.92 in, fell in 1947.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 from the Wichita Falls Area threaded record (Wichita Falls Municipal Airport, 4 miles north). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
