The Poynette 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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1° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1962. Next is 2° in 1986.
Poynette’s center stands about 850 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 800 ft to 1,090 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Sauk Point, about 1,630 ft, 13 miles west.
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 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 29×. 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 17 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Quartzite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 0.5 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 Poynette reaches the Gulf of America by way of Rowan Creek, the Wisconsin and the Mississippi: about 1,720 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Wisconsin.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Poynette; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Poynette has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. A normal year brings about 43 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 36 inches of water.
On November 14 Poynette normally reaches 45° and falls to 27°. The record high is 69°, in 1971; the record low 8°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.43 in, fell in 1980.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1962 at Arlington, 7 miles south-southeast, 200 ft higher. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
