The Bayou Vista 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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84° on Nov. 16, 2011, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 84° in 2024.
Bayou Vista’s center stands barely above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 20 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Alluvium (fine-detrital, coarse-detrital), from the Holocene, less than 12,000 years old.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 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 Bayou Vista reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Highland Bayou: about 1 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bayou Vista; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bayou Vista has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 49° in January. About 47 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Bayou Vista normally reaches 73° and falls to 59°. The record high is 83°, in 2020; the record low 37°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.66 in, fell in 2022.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Galveston Area threaded record (Galveston Scholes Field, 6 miles southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
