The Oakland 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. 14, 2018, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 90° in 1957.
Oakland’s center stands about 130 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 60 ft to 170 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sugarloaf Mountain, about 320 ft, 9 miles northwest.
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. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 23 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 1 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 Oakland reaches the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Apopka, Lake, Eustis, Lake, Haines Creek, Haynes Creek, the Ocklawaha and Trout Creek: about 210 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Apopka, Lake, Lake Ocklawaha and Eustis, 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 Oakland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Oakland has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 94° in July; winter nights fall to about 49° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Oakland normally reaches 80° and falls to 58°. The record high is 91°, in 2018; the record low 37°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 1.47 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Clermont 9 S, 8 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
