The Springvale 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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69° on Nov. 17, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 68° in 2023.
Springvale’s center stands about 950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 910 ft to 990 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sinnipee Group (dolostone), from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 63×. 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: Ordovician, 445 to 487 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.
Springvale straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the northeast side runs to Lake Michigan; most of the rest goes to the Gulf of America.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Gulf of America by way of the West Branch Rock, the Rock River and the Mississippi: about 1,780 river miles. One that lands on the northeast side reaches Lake Michigan by way of the West Branch Fond Du Lac and the Fox River: about 95 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Lake Koshkonong.
1,450 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Springvale; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Springvale has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 11° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Springvale normally reaches 45° and falls to 29°. The record high is 64°, in 2025; the record low 10°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.10 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Fond Du Lac County Airport, 11 miles east, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
