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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73° on Nov. 16, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1889. Next is 72° in 1964.
Springvale’s center stands about 880 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 810 ft to 1,030 ft, a difference of 220 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Prairie du Chien Group (dolostone), from the Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. 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 12 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 12 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 Springvale reaches the Gulf of America by way of Middle Branch Duck Creek, Duck Creek, the Wisconsin and the Mississippi: about 1,740 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Wisconsin.
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 hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. A normal year brings about 39 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 38 inches of water.
On November 14 Springvale normally reaches 45° and falls to 29°. The record high is 72°, in 1999; the record low 1°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.63 in, fell in 1902.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1889 at Portage Wwtp, 13 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
