The Winfield 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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5.62 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1905. The next wettest, 4.65 inches, fell in 1971.
Winfield’s center stands about 450 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 350 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wilcox Group, undivided (mudstone), from the Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 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.
Mudstone. Age: Late Paleocene to Early Eocene, 48 to 59 million years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Paleocene to Eocene, 34 to 66 million years old. About 0.8 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 Winfield reaches the Gulf of America by way of Smith Creek, Big Cypress Creek, Big Cypress Bayou, Twelvemile Bayou, Cross Bayou, the Red River, the Atchafalaya and the Lower Atchafalaya: about 540 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Clear Lake, Lake O' the Pines and Monticello Reservoir.
260 miles of the trip are on the Red River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Winfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Winfield has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Winfield normally reaches 66° and falls to 41°. The record high is 88°, in 2005; the record low 17°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 2.12 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Mount Pleasant, 6 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
