The Minden City 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, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 74° in 2022.
Minden City’s center stands about 820 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 760 ft to 880 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Marshall Sandstone, from the Carboniferous, 324 to 359 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 62×. 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 13 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 10 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 Minden City reaches Lake Huron by way of White Rock Creek: about 10 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Often dry. About 50% of the way is mapped as streams that run only after rain or snowmelt; the water makes the whole trip in floods.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Minden City; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Minden City has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 16° in January. A normal year brings about 47 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Minden City normally reaches 46° and falls to 32°. The record high is 69°, in 1909; the record low 10°, in 1900. The most rain on this date, 1.42 in, fell in 1958.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Harbor Beach 1 SSE, 13 miles north-northeast, 220 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
