The Ingram 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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20° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1974. Next is 22° in 1987.
Ingram’s center stands about 1,740 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,660 ft to 2,000 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Haddenbrock Hill, about 1,920 ft, 12 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Glen Rose Limestone (limestone, marlstone), from the Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 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 35×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 113 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Limestone, marlstone. Age: Early Cretaceous, 100 to 145 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, 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.
A raindrop that lands in Ingram reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Guadalupe and the South Guadalupe: about 420 river miles.
Lake on the way: Canyon Lake.
300 miles of the trip are on the Guadalupe.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ingram; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ingram has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in August; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 31 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ingram normally reaches 68° and falls to 44°. The record high is 85°, in 2005; the record low 20°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.73 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1974 at Kerrville 3 NNE, 8 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
