The Lake Butler 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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5.70 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1892. The next wettest, 4.56 inches, fell in 2023.
Lake Butler’s center stands about 100 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 180 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
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 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. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 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.
Lake Butler has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 49° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lake Butler normally reaches 78° and falls to 58°. The record high is 88°, in 2018; the record low 34°, in 1906. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1908.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 from the Orlando Area threaded record (Orlando International Airport, 14 miles east-southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
