The Quail Creek 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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6.35 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1902. The next wettest, 3.35 inches, fell in 2003.
Quail Creek’s center stands about 110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 130 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lissie Formation (silt, sand, clay), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay, sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pliocene, 2.6 to 5.3 million years old. About 0.5 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 Quail Creek reaches the Gulf of America by way of Dry Creek, the Guadalupe and the South Guadalupe: about 45 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Quail Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Quail Creek has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 95° in July; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Quail Creek normally reaches 74° and falls to 52°. The record high is 93°, in 1921; the record low 28°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 2.09 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1902 from the Victoria Area threaded record (Victoria Regional Airport, 11 miles east-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
