The Brussels 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. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1905. Next is 4° in 1933.
Brussels’s center stands about 770 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 650 ft to 860 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Dhuey Hill, about 950 ft, 7 miles south.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Silurian, undivided (dolostone), from the Silurian, 422 to 445 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 50×. 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: Silurian, 422 to 445 million years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million 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 Brussels reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Ahnapee: about 14 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 40% 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 Brussels; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Brussels has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. A normal year brings about 57 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 33 inches of water.
On November 14 Brussels normally reaches 43° and falls to 29°. The record high is 67°, in 1999; the record low 9°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.09 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1905 at Sturgeon Bay Experiment Farm, 17 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
