The Samsula-Spruce Creek 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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10.52 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1923. The next wettest, 8.20 inches, fell in 2023.
Samsula-Spruce Creek’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 70 ft, a difference of 50 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Beach ridge and dune (sand, clay), from the Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 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 14 mi of the line.
Sand, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 0.3 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 Samsula-Spruce Creek reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Spruce Creek: about 16 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Samsula-Spruce Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Samsula-Spruce Creek has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 48° in January. About 51 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Samsula-Spruce Creek normally reaches 76° and falls to 58°. The record high is 86°, in 2008; the record low 38°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 4.09 in, fell in 2001.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1923 from the Daytona Beach Area threaded record (Daytona Beach International Airport, 8 miles north). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
