The New Chester 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. 16, 2001, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1930. Next is 69° in 1941.
New Chester’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 930 ft to 1,140 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Friendship Mound, about 1,300 ft, 12 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Cambrian, undivided (sandstone), from the Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 51×. 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 24 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.
New Chester straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the northwest side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to Lake Michigan.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Lake Michigan by way of Neenah Creek and the Fox River: about 190 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the northwest side reaches the Gulf of America by way of White Creek, the Wisconsin and the Mississippi: about 1,770 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Winnebago 6124, Lake Butte des Morts and Puckaway Lake.
50 miles of the trip are on the Fox River.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of New Chester; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
New Chester has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. A normal year brings about 52 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 35 inches of water.
On November 14 New Chester normally reaches 44° and falls to 26°. The record high is 62°, in 1944; the record low 2°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1930 at Friendship, 12 miles northwest, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
