The Shiner 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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4.90 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1893. The next wettest, 4.63 inches, fell in 1998.
Shiner’s center stands about 380 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 300 ft to 460 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Oakville Sandstone (sandstone, clay), from the Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 61×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone-mudstone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, sandstone. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone, sand. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Claystone, sandstone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Shiner reaches the Gulf of America by way of Rocky Creek and the Lavaca: about 100 river miles.
80 miles of the trip are on the Lavaca.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Shiner; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Shiner has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in August; winter nights fall to about 44° in January. About 40 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Shiner normally reaches 75° and falls to 53°. The record high is 90°, in 2020; the record low 29°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.94 in, fell in 1923.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Hallettsville 2 N, 14 miles east, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
