The Green Oak 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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73° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1880. Next is 71° in 1909.
Green Oak’s center stands about 920 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 870 ft to 990 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Haven Hill, about 1,140 ft, 12 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bedford Shale, from the Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million 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 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: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 23 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 2 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 Green Oak reaches Lake Erie by way of the Huron: about 85 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 Green Oak; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Green Oak has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 84° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 61 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 38 inches of water.
On November 14 Green Oak normally reaches 49° and falls to 31°. The record high is 71°, in 1909; the record low 11°, in 2018. The most rain on this date, 1.31 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1880 at Ann Arbor U Of Mich, 14 miles south, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
