The Grant 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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6° on Nov. 15, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 13° in 1986.
Grant’s center stands about 700 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 670 ft to 840 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Marshall Sandstone, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 45×. 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. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 Grant reaches Lake Michigan by way of Carlton Creek and the White River: about 18 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: White Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Grant; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Grant has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. A normal year brings about 69 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 35 inches of water.
On November 14 Grant normally reaches 46° and falls to 33°. The record high is 68°, in 1956; the record low 14°, in 1908. The most rain on this date, 1.40 in, fell in 1908.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Montague 4 NW, 5 miles southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
