The Homosassa 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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96° on Nov. 13, 2007, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 91° in 2023.
Homosassa’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bailey Hill, about 240 ft, 15 miles south-southeast.
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 5 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 10 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 0.6 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 Homosassa reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Homosassa: about 2 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Homosassa; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Homosassa has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 44° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Homosassa normally reaches 78° and falls to 52°. The record high is 88°, in 1996; the record low 34°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 2.53 in, fell in 1941.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 from the Brooksville Area threaded record (Brooksville Hernando County Airport, 23 miles south-southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
