The Bates 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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67° on Nov. 11, 2016, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 66° in 1999.
Bates’s center stands about 1,570 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,420 ft to 1,670 ft, a difference of 250 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Baraga Group; Michigamme Formation, undivided (mixed-clastic, metagraywacke), from the Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion 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 61×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Mixed-clastic, metagraywacke. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Greenstone, basalt. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 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 Bates reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Net, the Paint, the Brule and the Menominee: about 160 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
120 miles of the trip are on the Menominee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Bates; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bates has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 0° in January. About 31 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Amasa 1 W, 8 miles east, 100 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
