The Bearinger 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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78° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1891. Next is 71° in 1915.
Bearinger’s center stands about 720 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 610 ft to 950 ft, a difference of 340 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Black Mountain, about 960 ft, 3 miles west-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Detroit River Group (dolostone), from the Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 49×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Dolostone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Black-shale, limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 0.8 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 0.8 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.
Rain that falls on Bearinger runs straight into Lake Huron. 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 Bearinger; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Bearinger has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in February. A normal year brings about 88 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 32 inches of water.
On November 14 Bearinger normally reaches 44° and falls to 30°. The record high is 64°, in 1999; the record low 11°, in 1933. The most rain on this date, 0.69 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1891 at Cheboygan, 16 miles west-northwest, 140 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
