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BASIN TODAY — WHAT CHANGED SINCE YESTERDAY

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EVENTS

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WHAT'S ON — EVENTS & SPORTS

Games, concerts, rodeos and fairs from sources that publish them in structured form — the league's own API (RockHounds), the schools' own calendars and schedule exports (Odessa College, Midland College, UTPB), and the Ector County Coliseum's own calendar, which also carries the Jackalopes' home games. Every item is stamped with its source; an event joins a venue's card only when the source's own venue naming matches the venues layer — unjoined items carry the place exactly as published. High-school live scores have no honest automated source and are not shown; every gap is named in the source list below. What's On updated ….
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BASIN WIRE — LOCAL NEWS

Local headlines and civic releases, newest first. City and county releases are public information and are carried in full — use “Read the release” where it appears. Commercial outlets are headline + link only: BasinOS links out and never republishes their articles. Every item is stamped with its outlet and published time; a source whose newest item is old says how old, and sources with no published feed are listed as gaps, not omitted. Wire updated …. Texas Tribune items appear only when they mention the basin.
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QUAKES & DISPOSAL WELLS

Most recent earthquakes, newest first; the right-hand figure is the distance to the nearest disposal (SWD) well. Proximity is not causation — a nearby disposal well is spatial context only, not evidence that any well caused any earthquake.
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ROADS THAT CAN HURT YOU

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Crash history below is NOT live risk — it is where crashes clustered in the TxDOT CRIS extract years.
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GRID (ERCOT)

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GRID & HEAT — WHAT BREAKS FIRST

ERCOT is zonal: the price and load figures here are ERCOT-wide or West-hub (HB_WEST) numbers, never county data. County-true grid & heat facts — NSRDB solar potential, HIFLD substations, and heat-day history — live on each county's own card: click any county on the map.
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AIR QUALITY

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TCEQ metro report readings (Odessa–Midland sites, reported by TCEQ as preliminary):
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NEAREST ER & TRAUMA CENTER

Road distance + estimated drive time from any point, routed on BasinOS's own stored OpenStreetMap road graph — no external routing service. “Nearest” means fastest by estimated drive time; the distance shown is that route's road length. Times assume per-class speeds (the extract stores no posted limits and no one-way tags) and no live traffic — road-data estimates, not directions.
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FEEDS — LIVE HEALTH (from actual fetches)

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LEGEND

Wells — oil
Wells — gas
Wells — injection / disposal
Wells — other RRC symbols
Pumpjacks (close zoom): well locations are real RRC data; zoom in and each individual well is drawn as a small pumpjack — a schematic symbol only. Its size, single colour and uniform facing are representational, not measured (a real unit is ~9 m long), and it shows no per-well status. At wide zoom wells appear as the coloured cluster points above.
Earthquakes — one ring per whole magnitude (ring count = magnitude rounded to nearest whole number, minimum 1); vertical line = depth to hypocenter, drawn at ×1 vertical scale (true scale, no exaggeration). Pulse is presentation only and does not change ring count. Rings fade with age — the brightest rings are under 6 hours old, the faintest are two weeks old.
Disposal / injection wells (SWD) — slate-blue droplet with a downward arrow cut through it: the 17,669 wells in the RRC store whose symbol type is Injection / Disposal. Shown as spatial context for the earthquake layer.
Click an earthquake (or a row in Quakes & Disposal Wells) for its inspector card — magnitude, depth, time and source, plus the nearest disposal well's distance and how many disposal wells sit within 5 and 10 km. Proximity is not causation: those distances are spatial context only and make no claim that any well caused, or contributed to, any earthquake.
Weather radar — NEXRAD composite reflectivity (NOAA/NWS data via Iowa State IEM): observed precipitation, NOT a forecast. The loop covers roughly the last hour in 5-minute frames, and the frame on screen is always named (CT) under the Radar layer control. Colours run green (light rain) through yellow and orange to red/magenta (heaviest rain, possible hail). No colour means no echo was detected in that frame — on a dry day the layer is honestly blank.
Aircraft — silhouette shape = class, oriented by real heading; altitude true scale; position dead-reckoned up to 120 s between polls, then grey (stale)
Airliner · Business jet · Turboprop · Piston · Helicopter
Red with a white cross = air ambulance (medflight), matched by operator registration / known local fleet tail
Olive = military · Ice-blue generic silhouette = type not broadcast / not matched (class unknown)
Registry honesty: matches name the REGISTERED owner, not necessarily the operator of the flight. Every aircraft card shows its class and the basis it was classified on (broadcast type, callsign or tail).
Click any aircraft for its inspector card — callsign, altitude, speed, heading and data age from the live ADS-B feed (adsb.lol primary, OpenSky cross-check).
Hospitals — white badge, red cross (grey badge = HIFLD lists the facility as closed)
Air quality — dots are AirNow monitoring stations, coloured by the station's worst current AQI on the EPA scale (green Good · yellow Moderate · orange Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups · red Unhealthy · purple Very Unhealthy · maroon Hazardous). Click a station for its inspector card. Coverage is honestly sparse: only 4 stations report in the 26 counties (Odessa, Hobbs, Carlsbad, Carlsbad Caverns) and none reports PM10 — for dust, watch the NWS dust products in the Air Quality panel. AirNow retired its forecast API on 2026-10-01, so BasinOS shows current conditions only; no forecast is borrowed or invented.
Click a hospital for its inspector card — beds, trauma designation, emergency services and CMS star rating, every figure stamped with its source and date (HIFLD for facility facts, CMS Care Compare for ER + stars).
Nearest ER & trauma routing (Slice 10) — arm the tool in the rail, then click any point: BasinOS routes over its own stored OSM road graph (Geofabrik extract, generated 2026-11-11) to the nearest emergency room and the nearest trauma center at each designation level present in the hospital store, and draws the routes. Distances are road distances on that graph; drive times are estimates from per-class assumed speeds — the extract carries no posted speed limits and no one-way tags, and there is no live traffic, so read times as road-data estimates. The ER category covers only facilities whose stored record states emergency services; a facility the store marks CLOSED is never routed to. From a point in a county with no hospital, the answer is honestly far — that distance is the point of the layer.
Click a pumpjack (close zoom) for the well's inspector card — operator, lease and field from the RRC wellbore file, plus the lease's reported monthly oil / gas / condensate production (Texas RRC Statewide Production Data). Production is reported by lease, not by well, and lags about two months — the card always names the reported month; it is history, not a live reading. Wells with no RRC lease or no filed reports show blank production, never zeros.
Buildings: Microsoft Global ML footprints (456,473 across the 26-county basin; © Microsoft, CDLA Permissive 2.0). Heights are hybrid, tagged per building: 189,062 LiDAR-measured from USGS 3DEP / TxGIO StratMap point clouds (flights 2014–2018), 156,061 Microsoft ML imagery estimates, 7 OSM-surveyed (building:levels × 3.2 m), 111,343 schematic flat 5 m where no source exists. Heights drawn at ×2 vertical exaggeration — a measured 30 m building stands 60 m — so the cities read in 3D. Colour shows the real height band: slate under 6 m, steel blue 6–15 m, rust-gold 15–30 m, bright gold 30 m and up. LiDAR processing is continuing across the remaining basin tiles; counts update as tiles complete.
Roads — motorway
Roads — trunk
Roads — primary
Roads — secondary
Roads — tertiary
Roads — unclassified
Roads — residential / living street
Roads: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), via Geofabrik state extracts; colours by road class as above; link roads (motorway_link etc.) use their parent class colour.
Road labels — names from OpenStreetMap name/ref tags, verbatim. Shown by priority (motorway first, residential last) as you zoom in: highways at basin zoom, street names only at street zoom; decluttered (one label per area, repeats spaced). Roads with no name/ref in OpenStreetMap stay unlabeled — 31,726 of 108,945 road sections basin-wide. Where a road has a ref but no name (highways, county roads), the ref is its label.
Road conditions (live) — coloured lines over the road: red closure, blue flooding, amber damage, orange accidents, pale ice/snow. Source: TxDOT DriveTexas, refreshed every 5 minutes; a line is here only while TxDOT reports the condition, and the Roads That Can Hurt You panel names the table's own as-of stamp. Click a line's midpoint dot (or a panel row) for the condition's card.
Crash hotspots (history) — warm discs where geocoded crashes from the TxDOT CRIS public extract cluster (at least 3 in a ~2 km cell); disc size grows with the count. The panel and every card name the extract's data years. History, not live risk — a hotspot says where crashes happened in those years, not how dangerous the road is today. Corridors in the panel rank by roadway name and also count crashes the extract could not geocode; the panel states the geocoded share.
Traffic cameras (live) — violet camera icons are TxDOT DriveTexas cameras inside the 26 region counties (85 in the current inventory). Click one for its inspector card and the LIVE video: the feed is proxied through this server only while the card is open and is never recorded or stored. A camera whose stream does not answer shows as offline/unreachable — never a still frame presented as live. Cameras cluster on I-20 and the Odessa/Midland highways; most rural counties have none, and New Mexico counties belong to NMDOT, not TxDOT, so they carry no cameras here.
Substations — gold diamonds are electric substations from the HIFLD registry (DHS / NGA) inside the 26 counties (589 in the current extract). Click one for its card — name, voltage, lines, status as HIFLD records them. HIFLD is a compiled registry, not a live grid feed: a diamond means recorded infrastructure, not that the substation is energized right now.
Schools — bell glyph shaded by level: pale gold elementary, gold middle / junior high, deep bronze high school, mid bronze K–12 / other. Texas campuses (194) carry TEA’s 2026 A–F rating on their cards — the year is always printed, and a campus TEA published as Not Rated says so in words. New Mexico schools (98) carry NM Vistas designations for SY2025–26 (Spotlight / Traditional / TSI / ATSI / CSI / MRI) — a different system from TEA’s A–F, never blended into one scale. NM points are the state facilities authority’s (PSFA) published locations, name-matched to PED’s roster with the match basis stored on each card; PED roster schools with no unique PSFA point are not placed. Click a school for its card.
Venues — ticket glyph shaded by kind: bright gold stadium, amber ballpark, terracotta arena / coliseum, rust-gold performing arts, tan cinema, brown racetrack, light tan fairgrounds / rodeo grounds, ice blue rink. 97 venues across 21 of the 26 counties, from OpenStreetMap (Geofabrik extract, downloaded 2026-11-12) — every named OSM feature whose class or name marks a spectator venue, merged where OSM maps one venue as several features. The ten majors (Ratliff Stadium, Astound Broadband Stadium, Momentum Bank Ballpark, Ector County Coliseum, Wagner Noël, Chaparral Center, Midland County Horseshoe, Lea County Events Center, Zia Park, Wool Bowl) carry facts read from their own operator / league pages, stamped on their cards. A capacity is printed only where such a page publishes one — 6 venues — and never estimated. Borden, Glasscock, Loving, Martin and Terrell counties have no venue the rules admit. Click a venue for its card.
Signals — antenna glyph tinted by kind: near-white FCC-registered towers, light-blue cellular sites, amber broadcast transmitters, green NOAA Weather Radio; pale diamonds are airports, slate triangles are FAA navaids. Towers also stand as columns at their registered height on the same ×2 vertical exaggeration as the buildings, so a tower and a building can be compared by eye; the card always prints the exact height. 124 tower registrations (FCC Antenna Structure Registration, via HIFLD — extract dated 2023-01-10, and it carries no structure-type field, so no tower type is shown), 198 cellular sites (FCC ULS per-site licenses, active only — the legacy cellular service and rural carriers; PCS / AWS / 5G are licensed by market area and have no per-site FCC record, so they cannot appear), 229 licensed broadcast facilities (FCC LMS dump 11-03-2026; construction permits are applications, not stations, and are excluded; FCC coverage contours are not in the LMS tables, so none are drawn), 16 NOAA Weather Radio transmitters (basin-sited, plus outside transmitters NOAA lists as serving a basin county — the card says which), 72 airports and 15 navaids (FAA NASR, cycle 2026-10-29; comm frequencies are on the airport cards). PeeringDB lists no data facility inside the 26 counties (checked against its Texas and New Mexico lists) — the zero is the data. Click any signal for its card.
Crude oil pipelines Petroleum product pipelines Natural gas pipelines Hydrocarbon gas liquids (NGL) pipelines
Pipeline geometry is GENERALIZED — the dashed lines are the pipeline corridors the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) publishes, not surveyed routes: EIA publishes corridor alignments, and precise pipeline routing is restricted to PHMSA NPMS account holders on purpose. Lines are coloured only by the product family of the EIA layer they were published in (34 crude, 12 petroleum product, 1,645 natural gas, 16 NGL corridors; about 32,138 km inside the basin envelope), and are simplified about 200 m for display. EIA publishes no water-pipeline layer, so no water corridors are drawn. The corridor layers are EIA’s, read through HIFLD’s GeoPlatform republish — EIA’s own hosted services answer “Token Required” to anonymous reads (verified 2026-11-12) — with each layer’s last-edit date on its cards. Click a corridor for its card.
Midstream facilities — orange flame-and-stack glyphs are natural gas processing plants; soft-red stacked towers are refineries. 71 processing plants from EIA’s EIA-757 survey file in its 2017 edition — the last edition EIA posts openly (its current hosted layer is access-restricted), so plants built or expanded since 2017 are missing or carry their 2017 capacities, and every plant card says so. 2 refineries from EIA’s EIA-820 Refinery Capacity Report, capacities as of Jan. 1, 2021: Big Spring (Alon USA, 74,000 barrels per calendar day) and Artesia (HollyFrontier Navajo, 124,000) — the only refineries inside the 26 counties; El Paso’s refinery is in EIA’s file but outside the region, so it is not shown. Click a facility for its card.
Power grid — bolt glyphs are power plants from EIA’s Form EIA-860, 2024 edition, tinted by the fuel family carrying the largest share of the plant’s operating capacity: gold solar, pale-blue wind, orange natural gas, violet battery storage, soft-red petroleum. 141 plants with at least one operating generator are drawn — 20,927.8 MW of operating nameplate in all (wind 44 plants · 8,363.2 MW; solar 50 · 6,072.6 MW; natural gas 12 · 4,127.5 MW; battery storage 28 · 1,774.1 MW; petroleum 7 · 590.4 MW). Capacity is the summed published nameplate of operating (status OP) generators only, never estimated. EIA’s plant file carries 185 records at in-region coordinates; the other 44 are not drawn — 34 appear only with proposed generators, 9 list no generators in the 2024 file, and 1 carries a single unit in a non-operating status (EIA status OA) — and the counts are stated here rather than the plans drawn. Solid lines are HIFLD’s published electric transmission lines, coloured by published voltage class: red-orange 345 kV, amber 220–287 kV, pale gold 100–161 kV, pale blue under 100 kV, violet for the one DC line, grey where HIFLD publishes no class — 1,381 lines, 21,524 km as drawn, clipped to the basin envelope and simplified about 200 m for display. 254 lines publish no owner; their cards say so rather than guessing. Substations are their own layer above (589, HIFLD). No prices live in this layer — ERCOT prices are the grid panel’s; this is the iron behind them. Click a plant or a line for its card.
Basin at night — orange flame glyphs are persistent flare sites from the World Bank GGFR Global Gas Flaring Tracker (June 2026 edition): flare volume estimates by individual flare location, 2012–2025, computed by the Earth Observation Group (Payne Institute) from VIIRS Nightfire detections. A site is drawn only when its estimated volume is positive in at least 3 distinct years — persistence across years of observations, never a single detection and never a single hot pixel. The workbook carries 4,750 sites at coordinates inside the 26 counties: 4,722 have at least one positive year, 4,455 are drawn, and the other 267 positive sites are counted here rather than drawn. Sprite size steps with years detected (3–4 years smallest, 10 or more largest). Volumes are GGFR’s published ESTIMATES of gas flared, modelled from Nightfire radiant heat — estimates wherever they print, never measurements. 70 sites sit within 1 km of a catalogued gas plant or refinery and their cards name it (the three largest plants each have a persistent flare within 0.4 km — East Toyah 0.34 km, Benedum Complex 0.30 km, Indian Basin 0.36 km); the rest are upstream production sites whose nearest catalogued facility is a median 13.8 km away, and their cards say so instead of borrowing a plant’s name. A ranchland control box in Terrell County (30.05–30.55 N, 102.15–102.75 W) holds zero catalogued sites and zero positive sites — the dark stays dark. VIIRS night-lights composite imagery is NOT SHOWN on this layer: both publishers now require a free account token (EOG’s composites sit behind an account sign-in; NASA Black Marble answers 401 without an Earthdata token — verified 2026-11-12), and the keyless remainder is 8-bit rendered pictures, not radiance, so no frame is drawn rather than a picture dressed as data; when a token is installed, every frame will carry its month label. The FIRMS cross-check waits on the free NASA MAP_KEY (not installed). Click a flame for its card.
Flood & flow — staff-gauge glyphs are the U.S. Geological Survey’s active NWIS stream gauges inside the 26 counties (53 catalogued; the Pecos, Colorado, Concho, Rio Hondo and Black rivers, Barrilla Draw and the rest of NWIS’s real in-basin catalog). Each glyph shows the gauge’s latest published discharge and gage height on its card, with the reading’s own timestamp; USGS marks real-time values provisional. Glyph colour is the gauge’s standing against its published flood categories: blue below action stage (or no thresholds published), amber at action stage, red at or above flood stage. Flood stages are the National Weather Service’s published NWPS categories (action / minor / moderate / major), shown only where NWPS publishes them — 26 of the 53 gauges; USGS does not publish flood stages through NWIS, and none are estimated. NAMED GAP: NWIS operates NO active stream gauge on Monahans Draw (verified 2026-11-12) — none is drawn or invented. The filled polygons are FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer flood hazard zones: deep rose = the regulatory floodway, red = the Special Flood Hazard Area (zones A, AE, AH, AO — the 1% annual-chance floodplain), deeper blue = Zone X 0.2% annual-chance areas, pale blue = Zone X minimal hazard, tan = Zone D (undetermined). 2,456 zones are drawn, each stamped with its FIRM panel number and that panel’s effective date on its card (dates joined from FEMA’s own panel polygons; 2,455 of 2,456 matched a panel). Zone geometry is FEMA’s own published polygons generalized by its service to about 50 m for display — the FIRM panel is the legal document, never this drawing. PARTIAL COVERAGE, stated plainly: FEMA’s service publishes digital zones for only 13 of the 26 counties (Chaves, Coke, Crockett, Dawson, Ector, Eddy, Gaines, Howard, Lea, Otero, Reagan, Sterling, Terrell). Midland, Reeves, Pecos, Ward, Crane, Upton, Martin, Mitchell, Andrews, Winkler, Borden, Glasscock and Loving have NO zones in the service — their flood studies were never published into the digital NFHL. Their floodplains exist; their digital zones do not. Ground with no polygon anywhere on this layer is unstudied or unmapped ground, NOT certified flood-free ground. Click a gauge or a zone for its card.
Drought — counties washed by the current U.S. Drought Monitor worst category in USDM’s own palette: yellow D0 (abnormally dry), tan D1 (moderate), orange D2 (severe), red D3 (extreme), dark red D4 (exceptional); no wash means None. US Drought Monitor · loading…. The Monitor publishes weekly (data valid Tuesday, released Thursday) — between releases this layer honestly shows the current release, never an interpolated daily value. Percents are cumulative (that category or worse) as published; the card’s exclusive bands are derived by successive difference. With this layer on, click a county for its drought card (cumulative percents + bands + full weekly history); with it off, the county click opens the county card, which carries the same drought summary either way.
FORECAST — SPC convective outlook. Day 1: loading… Day 2: loading… Polygons are washed with the service’s own fill colors (TSTM pale green, MRGL dark green, SLGT yellow, ENH orange, MDT red, HIGH magenta) and stored full-shape as SPC published them, never clipped; the per-county maximum on each card is computed by polygon intersection. A day with no polygons touching the basin is honestly empty (basin max NONE) with the issuance times still printed. These are probabilistic forecasts for their stated valid windows, not observations. Click a polygon for its outlook card.
FORECAST — SPC fire-weather outlook. Fire Day 1: loading… Fire Day 2: loading… Fire polygons share this layer (Elevated orange, Critical red, Extreme magenta — the fire layers’ own renderer colors, since those layers publish no label field). Risk areas are drawn only when the service publishes them; the service’s no-risk placeholder is never drawn as a polygon.
HISTORY — preliminary storm reports (IEM/NWS), trailing 12 months: red triangles are tornado reports, pale ice-blue discs are hail, amber gust strokes are wind (thunderstorm + non-thunderstorm). Scope is those three families only — funnel clouds, waterspouts, marine wind and everything else the archive carries (rain, snow, flood, flash flood, …) are out of scope, so counts here never match raw archive totals. Reports are preliminary and unverified, never confirmed damage surveys; magnitude and unit are exactly as reported. Click a glyph for its report card.
Land status — each patch is one BLM Surface Management Agency tessellation feature, filled by the agency that manages its surface: tan BLM, green Forest Service, blue Fish & Wildlife, brown National Park Service, grey Defense, purple Indian Affairs, teal Reclamation, light grey other federal, orange State, pale green local (none mapped in-basin in this assembly), pale tan private-or-unknown. BLM SMA · loading…. SURFACE ONLY — this layer is never ownership and never the mineral estate (split estate). BLM’s private-land background fill is its “Private or Unknown” (PRIUNK) class — parcel-level private data exists for New Mexico; elsewhere private surface is that undifferentiated fill, stamped UND because no agency administers it. It is shown here as Private or unknown. Texas State surface here is mostly University Lands + Permanent School Fund land; SMA does not break University Lands out separately. Click a patch for its card; click a county for the county card’s land shares block.
Protected areas — USGS PAD-US 4.1 units in the GAP green family (dark green GAP 1, bright green GAP 2, soft green GAP 3, pale green GAP 4), with outlines. PAD-US · loading…. PAD-US OVERLAPS BY DESIGN — designations and easements sit on fee land — so unit acres are never summed; the card’s published acres are the whole unit (which may extend past the basin edge) and in-basin acres are the measured basin share. Click a unit for its card.
Critical habitat — final designated USFWS polygons (brief red, alpha .45, with outlines), species by species. USFWS · loading…. FINAL designated only — the Federal Register rule text is the legal source, never this GIS; proposed habitat is a separate layer and is not shown. Click a polygon for its species card.
Cropland — counties washed by their dominant CDL class: cotton red, sorghum orange, corn gold, wheat bronze, soybeans green, peanuts brown, hay greens, fallow olive, pasture and grassland sages, shrubland taupe, forest green, developed grey, water blue, wetlands teal, barren tan. USDA NASS CDL · loading…. A 30 m satellite classification, not a survey — major crops strong, minor crops and field edges weaker; not irrigated/dryland, and not the NASS survey estimate. Click a county for the county card’s cropland block.
Geology — surface geologic units filled by era (alpha .55, with outlines): Quaternary pale straw, Neogene straw, Paleogene sand, Cretaceous sage, Jurassic green, Triassic rust, Permian brick, Pennsylvanian violet, Mississippian blue, Early Paleozoic slate, Precambrian deep plum, igneous/metamorphic maroon. USGS SGMC · loading… (USGS SGMC 2017; from state maps at 1:500,000 — surface geology only). Units are not reconciled across the TX/NM line, and nothing here is a subsurface claim; sub-basin outlines are not drawn (no citable source verified). Click a patch for its unit card.
Civic shield — fire stations red, EMS / ambulance blue, law enforcement purple, detention / corrections dark grey, other facilities grey. USGS TNM structures · loading…. A point-in-time structures inventory — NOT live dispatch, staffing, or operational status: a listed station may be volunteer-run or unstaffed, and a county showing zero facilities of a class means the dataset holds none there, not that none exists. Click a dot for its facility card; click a county for the county card’s civic block.
Crime — counties washed by the headline-year reported-offense rate per 10k residents (FBI CDE, single-county agencies only; rates use ACS population estimates): 0 recorded pale rose (#f3e2dd), >0 and <100 light rose (#eec9bd), 100–<200 rose (#e2a18e), 200–<350 brick (#cf6f52), 350–<500 red (#b23a26), >=500 dark red (#8c2415); no data (has_data false/missing): no fill (transparent). FBI CDE · loading…. Reported offenses recorded by police (FBI CDE) — not victimization. Reporting is voluntary: a county with no fill has no defensible data, not no crime. County totals exclude multi-county agencies (Odessa PD, Midland PD, O'Donnell PD), which are listed on the county cards; Ector and Midland totals are partial by construction.
Satellite imagery — switchable ground underlay: USGS NAIP Plus aerial or Sentinel-2 cloudless 2024 annual mosaic by EOX (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, CC BY 4.0). NAIP / Sentinel-2 · loading…. Mosaics of PAST acquisitions — NOT current conditions: NAIP vintage varies by county (see each county's card), renders are whole-basin regional context, and the Sentinel-2 layer is an annual best-pixel composite, not a live scene.
FracFocus — hydraulic fracturing disclosure clusters (oil amber circles, radius by disclosure count). FracFocus · loading…. An operator self-report registry — figures as disclosed, never adjusted; reporting lags jobs by weeks-months. Click a county for the county card’s FracFocus block.
Seismic Response Areas — RRC SRA boundaries as published in the TexNet ArcGIS services (burnt-orange outlines, faint fill). TexNet/RRC · loading…. Name + geometry only — designation dates and curtailment/volume rules are not machine-readable there; a regulatory management area, not a seismicity prediction. Click a polygon for its SRA card.
Broadband reality — Ookla measured fixed tiles colored by disagreement with the county median FCC Form 477 claim: below half, close, meets claim, grey = no claim. Ookla · loading…. Measured speeds are Ookla per-tile averages for the quarter; claims are provider-reported maximum advertised speeds (Form 477, June 2021). BasinOS asserts neither; it shows both. Current National Broadband Map claims are a named gap (FCC account hash required). Click a county for the county card’s broadband block.
Mesonet — West Texas Mesonet stations (gauge-blue dots, no glow, no pulse) with their latest published observations in native metric units (temperatures °C, wind m/s, station pressure mbar, precip mm, solar W/m²). West Texas Mesonet · loading…. Real-time / provisional values published about every 5 minutes, shown with their ob times; a silent station shows its last ob time, never a filled-in value. Soil values exist only where a station carries those sensors. Chaves, Ector, Loving, Midland, Otero, Terrell, Ward and Winkler counties have NO WTM station — a coverage fact, not zero weather. Click a dot for its station card; click a county for the county card’s mesonet block.
Carbon (GHGRP + Class VI) — EPA GHGRP facility emissions EPA GHGRP · as reported to EPA, 2023 · loading…: filled amber dots = point facilities sized by reported total (sqrt scale, capped at 5 Mt); teal dots = geologic-sequestration facilities; grey dots = CO2 injection (quantities EPA-confidential, minimum size); HOLLOW rings = basin-aggregate facilities (Onshore / Gathering reporters aggregate at basin level and may pin a corporate-HQ address — not point sources); ringed teal down-arrow droplets = Brown Pelican Class VI wells (coordinates as published, NAD27). Sequestered CO2 is never netted against emitted. County-grain Class VI projects (STRATOS DAC, Orchard, Dusek CCS #2) surface in county cards. Click a dot or well for its card; click a county for the county card’s carbon block.
Heritage — Heritage · loading…: gold dots = National Register properties (NPS site points; district points are generated centroids, district boundaries shown as gold outlines); purple PIN glyphs = Official Texas Historical Markers — the pin is the roadside MARKER location, not the property’s location; purple dots = THC county courthouses; orange dots = Texas State Historic Sites. County-only records (NM State-Register-only listings, unmatched and address-restricted records) are never plotted — they are named on county cards as “location not published / county record”. Marker inscriptions live on the linked Atlas pages. No glow, no pulse (nothing here is live). Click a dot or pin for its card; click a county for the county card’s heritage block.
Drilling permits (RRC W-1) — RRC W-1 permits · loading…: small amber diamonds are ISSUED W-1 permits with GIS surface coordinates (RRC GIS values as published, NAD27) from the nightly Drilling Permit Master & Trailer Daily File — current-month cumulative only; pending-approval applications are NOT included (the RRC pending listing has been frozen since 2021-02-01). Permits without coordinates are counted in county totals but not placed on the map. New Mexico counties (Chaves, Eddy, Lea, Otero) show a named gap, not zeros — no verified machine-readable OCD permits feed exists. Click a diamond for its permit card; click a county for the county card’s permits block.
Broadband availability — NOT SHOWN, on purpose. The FCC National Broadband Map’s data is provider-reported: each provider tells the FCC what it claims to serve, by technology and claimed maximum speed, and the map is known to overstate coverage. Its bulk data needs a free FCC account token that BasinOS does not have yet, so no current National Broadband Map claims are drawn rather than borrowed from another source. Separately, the Broadband reality layer shows the FCC-published Form 477 claims (June 2021) labelled provider-reported against Ookla measured tiles. When the token is installed, the current-vintage claims will render labelled provider-reported here, in the data and on every card.
Click any county for its county card — solar potential from the NREL NSRDB (annual GHI mean over the 2005–2015 radiation record at the county centroid, plus typical-year DNI, served keyless via the EU JRC PVGIS copy of NSRDB), the substations sited in that county, and heat-day history (days ≥ 100°F and ≥ 110°F per year, 2015–2025) from the NOAA ACIS archive of the NWS station sited in the county. Only 10 of the 26 counties have a station in them; the other 16 cards say so in words instead of borrowing a neighbour's numbers.
◆Events — watcher findings (diamond marker, tinted by severity; only events with real coordinates are mapped)
Basin Today — deltas compare today so far against yesterday (America/Chicago), each labelled with its window and source table; an item with no honest delta says so and why, rather than showing a made-up zero. Abnormal-now watchers raise Events when the basin leaves its own observed background: earthquake swarm, HB_WEST price spike, fire-detection cluster, radar-confirmed severe cell inside a warning, and an AQI spike at any reporting AirNow station (AQI ≥ 101, the EPA 'Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups' floor).

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DARK BY DESIGN — no real feed exists, so these layers stay off: shelter beds · live transit positions · police calls · city-street traffic flow · live rig locations.
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