The Levis 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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−8° on Nov. 13, 1986, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is −7° in 1916.
Levis’s center stands about 990 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,040 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Bruce Mound, about 1,390 ft, 8 miles west-southwest.
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 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.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Gneiss. Age: Mesoarchean to Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.9 billion years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion 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 Levis reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Black River, the Dodge Chute and the Mississippi: about 1,770 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Levis; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Levis has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 5° in January. A normal year brings about 44 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 36 inches of water.
On November 14 Levis normally reaches 43° and falls to 25°. The record high is 70°, in 1999; the record low −7°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.26 in, fell in 1902.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Neillsville 3 ESE, 7 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
