The Ocala 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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90° on Nov. 16, 1957, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1892. Next is 89° in 1952.
Ocala’s center stands about 80 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 section below crosses 4 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: Middle Miocene to Late Miocene, 5.3 to 16 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 2 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.
Ocala has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 46° in January. About 52 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ocala normally reaches 77° and falls to 54°. The record high is 87°, in 1945; the record low 28°, in 1932. The most rain on this date, 1.47 in, fell in 1941.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Ocala, 4 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
