The Wink 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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7° on Nov. 14, 1976, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1938. Next is 15° in 1950.
Wink’s center stands about 2,790 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 2,730 ft to 2,830 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Caliche deposits (chemical), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. 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: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Chemical. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 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 Wink reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Pecos and the Rio Grande: about 930 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Paz Ramirez Lake and Amistad Reservoir.
290 miles of the trip are on the Pecos.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wink; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wink has a hot semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 98° in June; winter nights fall to about 30° in January. About 11 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wink normally reaches 69° and falls to 39°. The record high is 84°, in 2006; the record low 7°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 0.56 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1938 at Wink Faa Airport, 3 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
