The Armstrong Creek 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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2° on Nov. 15, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1996. Next is 3° in 2019.
Armstrong Creek’s center stands about 1,530 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,400 ft to 1,610 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Mafic metavolcanic rocks (basalt, basaltic-andesite), from the Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 40×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Basalt, basaltic-andesite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 24 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 Armstrong Creek reaches Lake Michigan by way of West Branch Armstrong Creek and the Peshtigo: about 120 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 Armstrong Creek; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Armstrong Creek has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. About 21 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Armstrong Creek normally reaches 41° and falls to 24°. The record high is 59°, in 2001; the record low 4°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.22 in, fell in 2020.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1996 at Iron Mountain Ford Airport, 19 miles east-northeast, 400 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
