The Palatka 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. 11, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1978. Next is 86° in 1986.
Palatka’s center stands about 80 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 10 ft to 100 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Undifferentiated sediments (sand, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 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, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 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.
A raindrop that lands in Palatka reaches the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean by way of Rice Creek: about 85 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Palatka; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Palatka has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 45° in January. About 56 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Palatka normally reaches 75° and falls to 54°. The record high is 86°, in 2018; the record low 36°, in 1984. The most rain on this date, 2.07 in, fell in 1997.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1978 at Hastings 4 NE, 15 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
