The Horseshoe 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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24° on Nov. 17, 2007, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 25° in 2025.
Horseshoe Beach’s center stands about 6 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 50 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground. Open water lies within three miles.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ocala Limestone, from the Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old.
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 13 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.
Rain that falls on Horseshoe Beach runs straight into the Gulf of America.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Horseshoe Beach; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Horseshoe Beach 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 Horseshoe Beach 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 northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
