The Bell 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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24° on Nov. 17, 2007, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 25° in 2025.
Bell’s center stands about 80 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 Ocala Limestone, from the Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 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 16 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 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.
Bell has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in June; winter nights fall to about 42° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Bell normally reaches 75° and falls to 49°. The record high is 85°, in 1958; the record low 32°, in 2003. The most rain on this date, 2.87 in, fell in 1949.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Cross City Airport, 17 miles west-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
