The Wheatland 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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−6° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 3° in 1996.
Wheatland’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 660 ft to 800 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country.
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.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 431 to 440 million years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Late Ordovician to Silurian, 434 to 447 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Dolostone, mudstone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 434 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.
A raindrop that lands in Wheatland reaches the Gulf of America by way of Yankee Run, the Wapsipinicon and the Mississippi: about 1,520 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wheatland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wheatland has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wheatland normally reaches 49° and falls to 30°. The record high is 72°, in 2025; the record low 3°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.25 in, fell in 2020.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Davenport Municipal Airport, 20 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
