The Bevent 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. 11, 1964, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 69° in 1953.
Bevent’s center stands about 1,220 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,180 ft to 1,340 ft, a difference of 160 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Blackberry Hill, about 1,380 ft, 7 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wolf River batholith; Wolf River Granite, from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 6 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 62×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Alkali-feldspar-granite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, dacite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 1.8 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Basalt, basaltic-andesite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 0.1 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.
Bevent straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the southeast side runs to Lake Michigan; most of the rest goes to the Gulf of America.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Plover, the Wisconsin and the Mississippi: about 1,860 river miles. One that lands on the southeast side reaches Lake Michigan by way of Holt Creek, the Little Wolf, the Wolf River and the Fox River: about 170 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lakes on the way: Petenwell Lake and Lake Wisconsin.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bevent; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bevent has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. About 34 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Bevent normally reaches 43° and falls to 27°. The record high is 68°, in 1999; the record low 6°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.76 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Rosholt, 11 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
