The La Tina Ranch 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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31° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1952. Next is 36° in 2019.
La Tina Ranch’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 30 ft, a difference of 20 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 8 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.
Silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand. 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 2 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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.
La Tina Ranch has a hot semi-arid climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in August; winter nights fall to about 50° in January. About 24 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 La Tina Ranch normally reaches 80° and falls to 58°. The record high is 92°, in 2020; the record low 31°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.11 in, fell in 2019.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1952 at Harlingen Rio Grande Valley International Airport, 11 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
