The Longwood 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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36° on Nov. 11, 2025, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1945. Next is 40° in 1963.
Longwood’s center stands about 90 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 30 ft to 110 ft, a difference of 80 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, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 9 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 Longwood reaches the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Soldier Creek, Blue Creek and Trout Creek: about 190 river miles.
Lakes on the way: George, Lake, Monroe, Lake and Jesup, Lake.
100 miles of the trip are on Trout Creek.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Longwood; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Longwood has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 50° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Longwood normally reaches 78° and falls to 58°. The record high is 88°, in 2008; the record low 40°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 1.77 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1945 at Orlando Sanford Airport, 8 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
