The Wildwood 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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88° on Nov. 12, 2015, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1958. Next is 87° in 2002.
Wildwood’s center stands about 70 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 50 ft to 120 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Undifferentiated sediments (sand, clay), from the Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 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.
Limestone. Age: Late Eocene, 34 to 38 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Sand, clay. Age: Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 6 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 Wildwood reaches the Gulf of America by way of Shady Brook and the Withlacoochee: about 65 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Rousseau and Panasoffkee, Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wildwood; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wildwood has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 92° in August; winter nights fall to about 49° in January. About 44 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wildwood normally reaches 77° and falls to 57°. The record high is 87°, in 2018; the record low 33°, in 1963. The most rain on this date, 2.20 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1958 from the Leesburg Area threaded record (Leesburg Municipal Airport, 14 miles east-southeast). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
