The Vero Lake Estates 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. 12, 2002, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1942. Next is 89° in 1979.
Vero Lake Estates’s center stands about 20 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 20 ft to 40 ft, a difference of 20 ft: nearly flat ground.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Anastasia Formation (sand, limestone), from the Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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, limestone. Age: Pleistocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand, limestone. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million 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 Vero Lake Estates reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the South Prong Saint Sebastian and the Saint Sebastian: about 11 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Vero Lake Estates; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Vero Lake Estates has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in August; winter nights fall to about 52° in January. About 53 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Vero Lake Estates normally reaches 79° and falls to 62°. The record high is 85°, in 2018; the record low 40°, in 1975. The most rain on this date, 3.68 in, fell in 1954.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1942 from the Vero Beach Area threaded record (Vero Beach International Airport, 9 miles southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
