hay, along with scattered deciduous forests of oak and aspen, hazelnut thickets, and prairie openings. A grove of black walnut trees lines the east side of Keystone Avenue at its intersection with County Road9. Brown's Creek has its source near Withrow. The bedrock formations of Washington County at Withrow are part of regionally extensive, gently sloping layers of sandstone, shale, and carbonate rock. Climate Withrow is in the northern continental United States and is characterized by a cool, subhumid climate with a large temperature difference between the summer and winter seasons. Winters are very cold, and summers are fairly short and warm. Snow covers the ground much of the time from late fall through early spring. Average summer temperatures are approximately June through August, and winter temperatures are approximately December through February. July is the warmest month, when the average high temperature is and the average low is . January is the coldest, with an average high temperature of and average low of . Its Köppen climate classification is Dfa. Annual normal precipitation ranges from in the north to in the south, and the growing season precipitation averages . The average growing season length ranges from 146 to 156 days. Normal annual snowfall totals about . It was a newsworthy event whenever the snowplow came through Withrow. Withrow lies at an elevation of in Washington County, Minnesota, northeast of St. Paul. Withrow is located northeast of White Bear Lake and northwest of Stillwater, north of Minnesota State Highway 96 and east of U.S. Highway 61. The last year Withrow appeared on the Official Minnesota State Highway Map was 2012. See also List of ghost towns in the United States References Sources 1883 establishments in Minnesota Geography of Washington County, Minnesota Populated places established in 1883 Unincorporated communities in Washington County, Minnesota