The West Pensacola 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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87° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1879. Next is 84° in 1951.
West Pensacola’s center stands about 80 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 0 ft to 100 ft, a difference of 100 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Citronelle Formation (sand), from the Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old.
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. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Clay, sand. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 0.3 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 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.
Rain that falls on West Pensacola runs only a short way, about 3 miles, to Pensacola Bay and the Gulf of America.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of West Pensacola; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
West Pensacola has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in July; winter nights fall to about 44° in January. About 68 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 West Pensacola normally reaches 72° and falls to 51°. The record high is 83°, in 1955; the record low 30°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 4.79 in, fell in 1914.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1879 from the Pensacola Area threaded record (Pensacola Regional Airport, 7 miles east-northeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
