The Lee 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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89° on Nov. 13, 2008, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1898. Next is 88° in 2020.
Lee’s center stands about 110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 80 ft to 140 ft, a difference of 60 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Hawthorn Group, Torreya Formation (sandstone, limestone), from the Middle Miocene, 12 to 16 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 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, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, gravel. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone. Age: Middle Miocene, 12 to 16 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 1 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.
Lee has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 45° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Lee normally reaches 76° and falls to 52°. The record high is 88°, in 2008; the record low 28°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 1.20 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1898 at Live Oak, 20 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
