The Wittenberg 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 1941. Next is 69° in 1953.
Wittenberg’s center stands about 1,180 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,140 ft to 1,260 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
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 42×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 22 mi of the line.
Anorthosite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Granodiorite, tonalite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 1.8 billion years old. About 0.4 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 Wittenberg reaches Lake Michigan by way of Tiger Creek, the South Branch Embarrass, the Embarrass, the Wolf River and the Fox River: about 190 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lakes on the way: Lake Winnebago 6124, Lake Winneconne and Lake Butte des Morts.
60 miles of the trip are on the Embarrass.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Wittenberg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wittenberg has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. About 34 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wittenberg normally reaches 43° and falls to 27°. The record high is 68°, in 1999; the record low 6°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.76 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Rosholt, 15 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
