The Hermansville 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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Hermansville’s center stands about 890 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 860 ft to 970 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Brier Hill, about 1,340 ft, 14 miles west-northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Trempealeau Formation (sandstone), from the Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 44×. 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: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Gneiss, amphibolite, migmatite. Age: Paleoarchean to Neoarchean, 2.5 to 3.6 billion years old. About 3 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 Hermansville reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Little Cedar and the Menominee: about 70 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 Hermansville; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
