The Wolfforth 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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90° on Nov. 15, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1911. Next is 88° in 2017.
Wolfforth’s center stands about 3,300 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 3,260 ft to 3,330 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
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 24 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.
Wolfforth has a cold semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 27° in January. A normal year brings about 7 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 18 inches of water.
On November 14 Wolfforth normally reaches 64° and falls to 37°. The record high is 89°, in 2025; the record low 4°, in 1976. The most rain on this date, 1.57 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1911 from the Lubbock Area threaded record (Lubbock International Airport, 15 miles northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
