The Chireno 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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17° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1909. Next is 20° in 1916.
Chireno’s center stands about 320 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 190 ft to 380 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 50×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Middle Eocene, 38 to 48 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 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 Chireno reaches the Gulf of America by way of Polysot Creek, the Attoyac, the Angelina and the Neches: about 210 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Ester Lake, Sabine Lake and B A Steinhagen Lake.
110 miles of the trip are on the Neches.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Chireno; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Chireno has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 35° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Chireno normally reaches 70° and falls to 44°. The record high is 86°, in 2005; the record low 24°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.82 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1909 at San Augustine, 13 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
