The Butler Beach 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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4.71 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1973. The next wettest, 4.35 inches, fell in 1997.
Butler Beach’s center stands about 13 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 60 ft, a difference of 60 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Anastasia Formation (sand, limestone), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 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.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.8 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.
A raindrop that lands in Butler Beach reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Moses Creek and the Matanzas: about 10 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Butler Beach; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Butler Beach has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 48° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Butler Beach normally reaches 75° and falls to 58°. The record high is 83°, in 1993; the record low 34°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 3.20 in, fell in 2001.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1973 at St Augustine Wtp, 6 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
