The Enchanted Hills 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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2° on Nov. 13, 2019, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is 12° in 1997.
Enchanted Hills’s center stands about 860 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 850 ft to 960 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Diamond Hill, about 1,090 ft, 8 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Antrim Shale (black-shale), from the Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 2 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.
Black-shale. Age: Devonian, 359 to 422 million years old. About 21 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Devonian to Carboniferous, 324 to 422 million years old. About 3 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 Enchanted Hills reaches Lake Michigan by way of Lake Wawasee, Turkey Creek and the Saint Joseph: about 120 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lake on the way: Lake Wawasee.
75 miles of the trip are on the Saint Joseph.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Enchanted Hills; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Enchanted Hills has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in January. About 35 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Goshen Municipal Airport, 10 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
