The Indiantown 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.
39° on Nov. 16, 1995, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 40° in 1962.
Indiantown’s center stands about 40 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 50 ft, a difference of 40 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Beach ridge and dune (sand, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, 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, limestone. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 3 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 Indiantown reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the South Fork Saint Lucie and the Saint Lucie: about 30 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Indiantown; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Indiantown has a tropical monsoon climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 57° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Indiantown normally reaches 81° and falls to 65°. The record high is 89°, in 2018; the record low 46°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 0.75 in, fell in 2022.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Canal Point Usda, 14 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.