The Wayne 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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72° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 69° in 1964.
Wayne’s center stands about 1,050 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 940 ft to 1,140 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Dundee Mountain, about 1,250 ft, 13 miles northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian, undivided (dolostone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 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.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million 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.
Wayne 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 Wayne Creek, the Kohlsville, the East Branch Rock, the Rock River and the Mississippi: about 1,790 river miles. One that lands on the northeast side reaches Lake Michigan by way of the West Branch Milwaukee, the Milwaukee and the Kinnickinnic: about 85 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 Wayne; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wayne has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 9° in January. A normal year brings about 36 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Wayne normally reaches 44° and falls to 26°. The record high is 69°, in 1999; the record low 5°, in 1995. The most rain on this date, 0.87 in, fell in 1991.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Hartford Wwtp, 13 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
