The New Port Richey East 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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27° on Nov. 17, 1940, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 32° in 1901.
New Port Richey East’s center stands about 13 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Suwannee Limestone (limestone, dolostone), from the Oligocene, 23 to 34 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 10 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Oligocene, 23 to 34 million years old. About 5 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 New Port Richey East reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Pithlachascotee: about 6 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New Port Richey East; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New Port Richey East has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 51° in January. About 54 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 New Port Richey East normally reaches 76° and falls to 59°. The record high is 89°, in 1955; the record low 34°, in 1932. The most rain on this date, 3.50 in, fell in 1916.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Tarpon Spgs Sewage Pl, 8 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
