The Wisner 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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−9° on Nov. 14, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1890. Next is −7° in 1916.
Wisner’s center stands about 1,420 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,350 ft to 1,540 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Carlile Shale, from the Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 58×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Late Cretaceous, 66 to 100 million years old. About 24 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 Wisner reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Elkhorn, the Platte, the Missouri and the Mississippi: about 1,880 river miles.
1,170 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wisner; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wisner has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 29 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 31 inches of water.
On November 14 Wisner normally reaches 48° and falls to 26°. The record high is 80°, in 1999; the record low −9°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.36 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1890 at West Point, 14 miles southeast, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
