The Menominee 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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74° on Nov. 17, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1919. Next is 71° in 2022.
Menominee’s center stands about 670 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 630 ft to 700 ft, a difference of 70 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Oak Hill, about 830 ft, 14 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Trenton Limestone (limestone, dolostone), from the Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 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 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.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 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 Menominee reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Little River and the Menominee: about 16 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 Menominee; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Menominee has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. A normal year brings about 44 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 33 inches of water.
On November 14 Menominee normally reaches 44° and falls to 29°. The record high is 67°, in 1958; the record low 10°, in 1933. The most rain on this date, 0.70 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1919 at Marinette, 8 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
