The Ingleside on the Bay 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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90° on Nov. 16, 2011, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is 89° in 1989.
Ingleside on the Bay’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 40 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
The section below crosses 6 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 2 mi of the line.
Sand, fine-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 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 Ingleside on the Bay 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 Ingleside on the Bay; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ingleside on the Bay has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 51° in January. About 35 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ingleside on the Bay normally reaches 77° and falls to 62°. The record high is 89°, in 1989; the record low 37°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.30 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Corpus Christi Nas, 11 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
