The Avon Park 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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91° on Nov. 14, 2008, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1933. Next is 91° in 2018.
Avon Park’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 100 ft to 180 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cypresshead Formation (sand), from the Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old.
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.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 7 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.
Avon Park has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 48° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Avon Park normally reaches 80° and falls to 56°. The record high is 91°, in 2018; the record low 35°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 7.60 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1933 at Wauchula, 18 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
