The Conover 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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63° on Nov. 14, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1939. Next is 63° in 2023.
Conover’s center stands about 1,660 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,640 ft to 1,780 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Military Hill, about 1,890 ft, 9 miles east.
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 64×. 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. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Basalt. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Metagraywacke. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Banded-iron-formation. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Basalt, basaltic-andesite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metavolcanic. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 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 Conover reaches the Gulf of America by way of Little Tamarack Creek, the Wisconsin and the Mississippi: about 2,020 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Petenwell Lake, Lake Wisconsin, Lake Du Bay and Rainbow Flowage.
1,610 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Conover; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Conover has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 2° in January. A normal year brings about 76 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 32 inches of water.
On November 14 Conover normally reaches 39° and falls to 22°. The record high is 63°, in 1999; the record low 3°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.75 in, fell in 2000.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1939 at Eagle River, 10 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
