The Winter Haven 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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91° on Nov. 13, 1986, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 90° in 1946.
Winter Haven’s center stands about 170 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 120 ft to 190 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Iron Mountain, about 330 ft, 11 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cypresshead 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 to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene, 2.6 to 3.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sand, clay, phosphorite. Age: Middle Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 16 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sand. Age: Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, less than 3.6 million years old. About 1 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.
Winter Haven has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 93° in July; winter nights fall to about 52° in January. About 46 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Winter Haven normally reaches 80° and falls to 60°. The record high is 90°, in 1956; the record low 35°, in 1968. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1969.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 from the Winter Haven Area threaded record (Winter Haven Gilbert Airport, 3 miles north-northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
