The Hamilton 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 1892. Next is 73° in 2020.
Hamilton’s center stands about 1,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 910 ft to 1,210 ft, a difference of 300 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Blue Mountain, about 1,260 ft, 14 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Red beds (shale), from the Jurassic, 145 to 202 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 36×. 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, shale. Age: Carboniferous, 299 to 324 million years old. About 17 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Jurassic, 145 to 202 million years old. About 7 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 Hamilton reaches Lake Huron by way of Cranberry Creek, the Cedar River, the Tittabawassee and the Saginaw: about 110 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 Hamilton; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Hamilton has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 13° in January. A normal year brings about 48 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Hamilton normally reaches 46° and falls to 29°. The record high is 64°, in 1989; the record low 8°, in 2019. The most rain on this date, 1.65 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1892 at Gladwin, 11 miles east-southeast, 280 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
