The Camp Wood 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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Camp Wood’s center stands about 1,470 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,390 ft to 1,940 ft, a difference of 550 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Housetop Mountain, about 2,330 ft, 5 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Quaternary deposit, undivided (coarse-detrital, fine-detrital), from the Quaternary, less than 2.6 million 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 21×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Limestone, marlstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Quaternary, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 0.8 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 Camp Wood reaches Corpus Christi Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the Nueces: about 380 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Corpus Christi.
310 miles of the trip are on the Nueces.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Camp Wood; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
