The Archer 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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89° on Nov. 17, 1957, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1890. Next is 89° in 2023.
Archer’s center stands about 70 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 130 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Hawthorn Group, Undifferentiated (sand, clay), from the Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old.
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.
Limestone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Middle Miocene to Late Miocene, 5.3 to 16 million years old. About 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.
Archer has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Archer normally reaches 75° and falls to 51°. The record high is 86°, in 1955; the record low 31°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 1.78 in, fell in 1949.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1890 from the Gainesville Area threaded record (Gainesville Regional Airport, 20 miles east-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
