The Bartow 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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94° on Nov. 11, 2013, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 91° in 2023.
Bartow’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 190 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Hawthorn Group, Peace River Formation, Bone Valley Member (sand, clay, phosphorite), from the Middle Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 16 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.
Sand, clay, phosphorite. Age: Middle Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 16 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.1 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 Bartow reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Peace: about 100 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bartow; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bartow has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 49° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Bartow normally reaches 79° and falls to 58°. The record high is 89°, in 2018; the record low 32°, in 1906. The most rain on this date, 2.46 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Bartow 1 SE, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
