The Blue Springs 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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21° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1928. Next is 23° in 2019.
Blue Springs’s center stands about 340 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 310 ft to 510 ft, a difference of 200 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Medley Hill, about 560 ft, 2 miles southeast.
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, clay. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Paleocene, 56 to 66 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Claystone. Age: Eocene, 34 to 56 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Cretaceous, 66 to 145 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.
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 Blue Springs reaches Choctawhatchee Bay and the Gulf of America by way of the West Fork Choctawhatchee and the Choctawhatchee: about 160 river miles.
130 miles of the trip are on the Choctawhatchee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Blue Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Blue Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 37° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Blue Springs normally reaches 69° and falls to 45°. The record high is 85°, in 1959; the record low 26°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1930.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1928 at Clayton, 15 miles north-northeast, 230 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
