The Malone 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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28° on Nov. 12, 2011, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1950. Next is 28° in 2019.
Malone’s center stands about 150 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 130 ft to 200 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ocala Limestone, from the Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 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.
Limestone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Eocene to Miocene, 5.3 to 56 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Clay. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.3 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.
Malone has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 41° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Malone normally reaches 72° and falls to 47°. The record high is 85°, in 1955; the record low 29°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.83 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1950 at Marianna Municipal Airport, 9 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
