The Clermont 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, 2018, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 90° in 1957.
Clermont’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 80 ft to 270 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sugarloaf Mountain, about 320 ft, 9 miles north.
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, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 2 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 Clermont reaches the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Eustis, Lake, Haines Creek, Haynes Creek, the Ocklawaha and Trout Creek: about 230 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Ocklawaha and Eustis, Lake.
100 miles of the trip are on Trout Creek.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Clermont; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Clermont has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 49° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Clermont normally reaches 80° and falls to 58°. The record high is 91°, in 2018; the record low 37°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 1.47 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Clermont 9 S, 5 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
