The Hamshire 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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88° on Nov. 16, 2011, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1901. Next is 87° in 1902.
Hamshire’s center stands about 19 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 40 ft, a difference of 30 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Beaumont Formation, areas predominantly sand, from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
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 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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 Hamshire reaches the Gulf of America by way of Mayhaw Bayou and South Fork Taylor Bayou: about 70 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Hamshire; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hamshire has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 44° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Hamshire normally reaches 73° and falls to 52°. The record high is 86°, in 1978; the record low 26°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.54 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1901 from the Beaumont-Port Arthur Area threaded record (Port Arthur Se Tx Regional Airport, 18 miles east-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
