The Port Mansfield 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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7.73 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1958. The next wettest, 3.67 inches, fell in 1967.
Port Mansfield’s center stands about 8 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 20 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
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.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 9 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 1 mi of the line.
Sand, fine-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 Port Mansfield runs straight into the Gulf of America.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Port Mansfield; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Port Mansfield has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 50° in January. About 25 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Port Mansfield normally reaches 77° and falls to 60°. The record high is 88°, in 1969; the record low 33°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.70 in, fell in 2004.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1958 at Port Mansfield, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
