The Live Oak 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.
Live Oak’s center stands about 110 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 90 ft to 190 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Undifferentiated sediments (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, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Middle Miocene to Late Miocene, 5.3 to 16 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.
Live Oak 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 Live Oak 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, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
