The Wawatam 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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−5° on Nov. 15, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1948. Next is −5° in 2019.
Wawatam’s center stands about 630 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 570 ft to 770 ft, a difference of 200 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Bois Blanc Formation (limestone), from the Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old.
The section below crosses 3 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 45×. 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: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 million years old. About 12 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Limestone, sedimentary-breccia. Age: Early Devonian, 394 to 422 million years old. About 1 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 Wawatam reaches Lake Huron by way of French Farm Creek: about 1 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 Wawatam; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Wawatam has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in February. About 30 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Wawatam normally reaches 44° and falls to 28°. The record high is 61°, in 2016; the record low −1°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 1.52 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1948 at Pellston Regional Airport, 12 miles south. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
