The Moore Haven 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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91° on Nov. 11, 1979, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1918. Next is 91° in 2006.
Moore Haven’s center stands about 17 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 20 ft, a difference of 10 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Shelly sediments of Plio-Pleistocene age (sand, limestone), from the Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 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, limestone. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 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 7 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 Moore Haven reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Caloosahatchee: about 70 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Hicpochee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Moore Haven; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Moore Haven has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 50° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Moore Haven normally reaches 80° and falls to 59°. The record high is 86°, in 2024; the record low 35°, in 1932. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 1969.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1918 at Moore Haven Lock 1, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
