The Woodland 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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74° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1917. Next is 68° in 2012.
Woodland’s center stands about 180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 100 ft to 480 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cooper Hill, about 730 ft, 12 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Ordovician - Cambrian Cookson Formation, sulfidic quartzose sandstone, from the Early Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 487 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 43×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Early Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Mudstone. Age: Early Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 487 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 Woodland reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Saint Croix: about 30 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Woodland; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Woodland has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. About 48 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Woodland normally reaches 46° and falls to 34°. The record high is 63°, in 2012; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.85 in, fell in 1975.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1917 at Woodland, here. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
