The Whitelaw 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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70° on Nov. 11, 1964, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 70° in 1999.
Whitelaw’s center stands about 850 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 720 ft to 930 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian, undivided (dolostone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 53×. 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 22 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 Whitelaw reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Branch and the Manitowoc: about 25 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Whitelaw; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Whitelaw has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 14° in January. A normal year brings about 35 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 31 inches of water.
On November 14 Whitelaw normally reaches 44° and falls to 31°. The record high is 70°, in 1999; the record low 9°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.41 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Manitowoc, 10 miles east-southeast, 270 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
