The Ledgeview 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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0° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1886. Next is 1° in 1933.
Ledgeview’s center stands about 770 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 580 ft to 920 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Cherneyville Hill, about 1,020 ft, 12 miles east.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Maquoketa Formation (shale, dolostone), from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 46×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 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 Ledgeview reaches Lake Michigan by way of Bower Creek, the East River and the Fox River: about 13 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Often dry. About 40% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ledgeview; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ledgeview has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. A normal year brings about 56 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 32 inches of water.
On November 14 Ledgeview normally reaches 44° and falls to 30°. The record high is 65°, in 1958; the record low 3°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.95 in, fell in 1956.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1886 from the Green Bay Area threaded record (Green Bay A S International Airport, 9 miles west-northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
