The Burnside 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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73° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1908. Next is 72° in 1953.
Burnside’s center stands about 950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 780 ft to 1,240 ft, a difference of 460 ft: hilly country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Eagle Peak, about 1,310 ft, 13 miles west-northwest.
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 34×. 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 19 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 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.
A raindrop that lands in Burnside reaches the Gulf of America by way of Traverse Valley Creek, the Trempealeau and the Mississippi: about 1,740 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Burnside; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Burnside has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 85° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. A normal year brings about 53 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 36 inches of water.
On November 14 Burnside normally reaches 45° and falls to 27°. The record high is 72°, in 1990; the record low −7°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.60 in, fell in 1931.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1908 at Mondovi, 16 miles northwest, 120 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
