The Wever 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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0° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1897. Next is 4° in 1940.
Wever’s center stands about 530 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 510 ft to 680 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Gittings Mound, about 760 ft, 10 miles east-southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Famennian formations (shale, siltstone), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 374 million years old.
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 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.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Mississippian to Middle Mississippian, 331 to 359 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Shale, siltstone. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 374 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Middle Mississippian to Late Mississippian, 324 to 347 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone, siltstone. Age: Early Mississippian, 347 to 359 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Middle Devonian to Late Devonian, 359 to 388 million years old. About 2 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.
A raindrop that lands in Wever reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Mississippi: about 1,370 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wever; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wever has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. About 38 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wever normally reaches 50° and falls to 33°. The record high is 75°, in 1964; the record low 6°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.26 in, fell in 1968.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1897 from the Burlington Area threaded record (Burlington Municipal Airport, 7 miles northeast, 150 ft higher). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
