The Almond 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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70° on Nov. 16, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 70° in 1964.
Almond’s center stands about 1,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,110 ft to 1,270 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cambrian, undivided (sandstone), from the Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 51×. 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: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 24 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoarchean to Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. About 0.5 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.
Almond has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. A normal year brings about 49 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Almond normally reaches 42° and falls to 26°. The record high is 70°, in 1999; the record low −4°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.96 in, fell in 1902.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Stevens Point, 19 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
