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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−3° on Nov. 12, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1943. Next is −2° in 1959.
Wayne’s center stands about 910 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 780 ft to 980 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Benton Mound, about 1,260 ft, 13 miles southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sinnipee Group (dolostone), from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million 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 46×. 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 15 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 454 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone, limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 447 to 459 million years old. About 1 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 Wayne reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Pecatonica, the Rock River and the Mississippi: about 1,720 river miles.
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 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 36 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 39 inches of water.
On November 14 Wayne normally reaches 46° and falls to 30°. The record high is 70°, in 1989; the record low 7°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 0.77 in, fell in 1980.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1943 at Stockton 3 NNE, 11 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
