The South Point 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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25° on Nov. 14, 2007, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1913. Next is 29° in 1955.
South Point’s center stands about 18 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 30 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground.
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.
Silt, clay. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Fine-detrital, coarse-detrital. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.3 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.
South Point has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate. Summer afternoons average 69° in July; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 78 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 South Point normally reaches 58° and falls to 45°. The record high is 68°, in 1969; the record low 25°, in 2007. The most rain on this date, 2.62 in, fell in 1934.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1913 from the Brookings Area threaded record (Brownsville S Padre Island International Airport, 4 miles northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
