The Gregory 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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4.91 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1887. The next wettest, 3.98 inches, fell in 1934.
Gregory’s center stands about 30 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 40 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 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.
Rain that falls on Gregory runs straight into Corpus Christi Bay and the Gulf of America.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Gregory; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Gregory has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in August; winter nights fall to about 48° in January. About 32 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Gregory normally reaches 76° and falls to 57°. The record high is 91°, in 1989; the record low 33°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.91 in, fell in 1943.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1887 from the Corpus Christi Area threaded record (Corpus Christi International Airport, 17 miles southwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
