The Ogdensburg 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. 11, 1964, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 69° in 1953.
Ogdensburg’s center stands about 860 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 830 ft to 1,050 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wolf River batholith; Waupaca Granite, from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 43×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Rhyolite, mixed-clastic. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 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 Ogdensburg reaches Lake Michigan by way of the North Branch Little Wolf, the South Branch Little Wolf, the Little Wolf, the Wolf River and the Fox River: about 130 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lakes on the way: Lake Winnebago 6124, Lake Winneconne and Lake Butte des Morts.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Ogdensburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Ogdensburg has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. About 34 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Ogdensburg normally reaches 43° and falls to 27°. The record high is 68°, in 1999; the record low 6°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.76 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Rosholt, 18 miles northwest, 280 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
