The Kenefick 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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25° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1983. Next is 30° in 2019.
Kenefick’s center stands about 80 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 120 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Davis Hill, about 280 ft, 14 miles north.
The section below crosses 4 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.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Silt, sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. 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 Kenefick reaches Galveston Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the Trinity: about 50 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kenefick; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kenefick has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 41° in January. About 65 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Kenefick normally reaches 72° and falls to 50°. The record high is 85°, in 2005; the record low 25°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 2.70 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1983 at Baytown, 16 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
