The Christine 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.
Partly cloudy
Showers likely
Mostly cloudy; cooler
Partly cloudy
Mostly cloudy; warmer
Chance of showers
Partly cloudy
25° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 27° in 2008.
Christine’s center stands about 330 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 290 ft to 420 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Yegua Formation (claystone, sandstone), from the Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old.
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 60×. 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. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.6 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 Christine reaches Corpus Christi Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Turkey Creek, La Parita Creek, the Atascosa, the Frio and the Nueces: about 140 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Corpus Christi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Christine; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Christine has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in August; winter nights fall to about 40° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Christine normally reaches 74° and falls to 50°. The record high is 89°, in 2025; the record low 25°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.78 in, fell in 2001.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Pleasanton, 12 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
