The Freer 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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93° on Nov. 12, 2024, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1947. Next is 92° in 1962.
Freer’s center stands about 520 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 460 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Piedritos Hill, about 710 ft, 4 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Catahoula Formation (mudstone, sand), from the Oligocene, 23 to 34 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 49×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mudstone, sand. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Sandstone, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Clay, sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.4 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 Freer reaches Corpus Christi Bay and the Gulf of America by way of Soledad Creek, Ygnacio Creek, the Old Nueces River Channel and the Nueces: about 180 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Corpus Christi.
80 miles of the trip are on the Nueces.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Freer; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Freer has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 99° in August; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 25 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Freer normally reaches 75° and falls to 53°. The record high is 90°, in 2024; the record low 25°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.25 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Freer, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
