The Wuori 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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62° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1986. Next is 60° in 2016.
Wuori’s center stands about 1,510 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,430 ft to 1,840 ft, a difference of 410 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pike Mountain, about 1,950 ft, 3 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Foliated to gneissic tonalite, granodiorite, and diorite (tonalite, granodiorite, diorite), from the Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion 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 31×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Banded-iron-formation, sedimentary-breccia. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 2 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Graywacke, mudstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Tonalite, granodiorite, diorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Slate, graywacke. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2 billion 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. 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 Wuori reaches Hudson Bay by way of the Sand River, the Pike, the Vermilion, the Rainy, the Winnipeg and the Nelson: about 1,100 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lakes on the way: Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, Vermilion Lake and Lake Winnipeg.
400 miles of the trip are on the Nelson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wuori; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wuori has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about −1° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wuori normally reaches 35° and falls to 21°. The record high is 62°, in 1999; the record low 0°, in 1995. The most rain on this date, 0.51 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1986 at Eveleth Waste Water Plant, 10 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
