The Midfield 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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5.32 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1896. The next wettest, 4.65 inches, fell in 1907.
Midfield’s center stands about 50 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 30 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 40 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 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.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Clay, silt. 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 0.8 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 Midfield reaches the Gulf of America by way of Wallace Creek and the Tres Palacios: about 30 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Midfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Midfield has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Midfield normally reaches 73° and falls to 52°. The record high is 88°, in 1921; the record low 28°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.30 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Danevang 1 W, 9 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
