The Wind Lake 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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1° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1871. Next is 4° in 1880.
Wind Lake’s center stands about 790 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 760 ft to 870 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
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 19 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 2 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 Wind Lake reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Muskego Canal, the Fox River, the Illinois and the Mississippi: about 1,580 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Peoria Lake and Fox Lake.
1,190 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wind Lake; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wind Lake has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. A normal year brings about 49 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 35 inches of water.
On November 14 Wind Lake normally reaches 48° and falls to 34°. The record high is 70°, in 1971; the record low 7°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.24 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1871 from the Milwaukee Area threaded record (Milwaukee Mitchell Airport, 15 miles northeast, 120 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
