The Taft Southwest 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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90° on Nov. 11, 2024, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1964. Next is 89° in 2006.
Taft Southwest’s center stands about 60 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 40 ft to 60 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Clay, silt. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Silt, sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 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 Taft Southwest reaches the Gulf of America by way of Chiltipin Creek and the Aransas: about 20 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Taft Southwest; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Taft Southwest has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in August; winter nights fall to about 44° in January. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Taft Southwest normally reaches 75° and falls to 53°. The record high is 87°, in 2024; the record low 28°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 0.05 in, fell in 1998.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1964 at Welder W'Life Foundation, 10 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
