The Ganado 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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5.32 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1896. The next wettest, 4.65 inches, fell in 1907.
Ganado’s center stands about 70 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 30 ft to 80 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly clay (clay, silt), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 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.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 9 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 Ganado reaches the Gulf of America by way of Mustang Creek, the Navidad and the Lavaca: about 35 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ganado; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ganado has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ganado normally reaches 73° and falls to 52°. The record high is 88°, in 1921; the record low 28°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.30 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Danevang 1 W, 15 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
