The Lake City 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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82° on Nov. 16, 1958, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1878. Next is 81° in 1985.
Lake City’s center stands about 960 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 830 ft to 1,020 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granite Gneiss/ Amphibolite (gneiss, amphibolite), from the Precambrian to Paleozoic.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 54×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 14 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 4 mi of the line.
Gneiss, mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, biotite-gneiss, mica-schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 2 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 1 mi of the line.
Hornblende-gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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.
Lake City straddles the Eastern Continental Divide. Rain on the east side runs to the Atlantic Ocean; most of the rest goes to the Gulf of America.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Gulf of America by way of Jester Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 440 river miles. One that lands on the east side reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Upton Creek, Big Cotton Indian Creek, the South River, the Ocmulgee and the Altamaha: about 420 river miles.
330 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Lake City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lake City has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 90° in July; winter nights fall to about 36° in January. About 50 inches of rain fall in a normal year, with about 2 inches of snow.
On November 14 Lake City normally reaches 64° and falls to 44°. The record high is 80°, in 1955; the record low 22°, in 1969. The most rain on this date, 1.80 in, fell in 1888.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1878 from the Atlanta Area threaded record (Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, 6 miles west-northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
