The Baroda 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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76° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1887. Next is 74° in 1911.
Baroda’s center stands about 640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 630 ft to 760 ft, a difference of 130 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Randall, about 820 ft, 6 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Antrim Shale (black-shale), from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 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.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Black-shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 0.9 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 Baroda reaches Lake Michigan by way of Hickory Creek and the Saint Joseph: about 16 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Often dry. About 30% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Baroda; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Baroda has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 83° in July; winter nights fall to about 20° in January. A normal year brings about 78 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 38 inches of water.
On November 14 Baroda normally reaches 50° and falls to 34°. The record high is 71°, in 1971; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1887 at Benton Harbor Airport, 12 miles north-northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
