The Citrus Springs 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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92° on Nov. 17, 1988, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 91° in 1921.
Citrus Springs’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 160 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Undifferentiated sediments (sand, clay), from the Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old.
The section below crosses 6 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: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 0.5 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 Citrus Springs reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Withlacoochee: about 30 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Rousseau.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Citrus Springs; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Citrus Springs has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 43° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Citrus Springs normally reaches 77° and falls to 52°. The record high is 88°, in 2008; the record low 32°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 3.43 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Inverness 3 SE, 16 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
