The Cameron 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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11.00 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1895. The next wettest, 6.77 inches, fell in 1918.
Cameron’s center stands about 6 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 10 ft, a difference of 10 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Chenier Plain, Saline Marsh (clay, silt), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
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.
Clay, silt. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 11 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 Cameron reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Calcasieu: about 3 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Cameron; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Cameron has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in August; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 60 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Cameron normally reaches 72° and falls to 51°. The record high is 87°, in 1917; the record low 29°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 5.40 in, fell in 1918.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1895 from the Lake Charles Area threaded record (Lake Charles Regional Airport, 23 miles north-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
