The Lima 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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75° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1910. Next is 71° in 1953.
Lima’s center stands about 740 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 690 ft to 830 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Dundee Mountain, about 1,250 ft, 15 miles west.
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 31×. 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.
Limestone, shale. Age: Middle Devonian, 384 to 394 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 Lima reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Onion and the Sheboygan: about 25 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 Lima; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Lima has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 12° in January. A normal year brings about 45 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Lima normally reaches 45° and falls to 29°. The record high is 67°, in 1953; the record low 7°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.93 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1910 at Plymouth Wwtp, 7 miles northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
