The Magnolia Beach 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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30° on Nov. 14, 2018, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1957. Next is 32° in 1970.
Magnolia Beach’s center stands about 7 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 10 ft, a difference of 10 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
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 8 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.7 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 Magnolia Beach runs only a short way, about 2 miles, to the Gulf of America.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Magnolia Beach; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Magnolia Beach has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 46° in January. About 41 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Magnolia Beach normally reaches 74° and falls to 55°. The record high is 88°, in 1964; the record low 30°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.52 in, fell in 2023.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1957 at Point Comfort, 7 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
