The Rose Hill Acres 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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Showers likely
Mostly sunny; warmer
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Mostly sunny
27° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1947. Next is 29° in 2018.
Rose Hill Acres’s center stands about 30 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
The section below crosses 5 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 9 mi of the line.
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 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.9 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 Rose Hill Acres reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pine Island Bayou and the Neches: about 70 river miles.
Lake on the way: Sabine Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Rose Hill Acres; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Rose Hill Acres has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in August; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 62 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Rose Hill Acres normally reaches 72° and falls to 51°. The record high is 89°, in 1955; the record low 29°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.83 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1947 at Beaumont Research Ctr, 10 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
