The Alaiedon 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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75° on Nov. 13, 1879, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1863. Next is 71° in 1909.
Alaiedon’s center stands about 910 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 860 ft to 940 ft, a difference of 80 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Teaspoon Hill, about 1,070 ft, 11 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Saginaw Formation (sandstone, shale), from the Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old.
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.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 24 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 Alaiedon reaches Lake Michigan by way of Mud Creek, Sycamore Creek, the Red Cedar and the Grand River: about 170 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 Alaiedon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Alaiedon has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in January. A normal year brings about 50 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 33 inches of water.
On November 14 Alaiedon normally reaches 48° and falls to 32°. The record high is 69°, in 1909; the record low 4°, in 1873. The most rain on this date, 1.01 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1863 from the Lansing Area threaded record (Lansing Capital City Airport, 13 miles northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
