The Little Chute 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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71° on Nov. 11, 2022, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 70° in 1953.
Little Chute’s center stands about 740 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 650 ft to 770 ft, a difference of 120 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Sinnipee Group (dolostone), from the Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 55×. 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: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 18 mi of the line.
Shale, dolostone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Ordovician, 445 to 487 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 0.3 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 Little Chute reaches Lake Michigan by way of Apple Creek and the Fox River: about 30 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 30% 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 Little Chute; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Little Chute has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 10° in January. A normal year brings about 49 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 33 inches of water.
On November 14 Little Chute normally reaches 44° and falls to 28°. The record high is 67°, in 1958; the record low 4°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 1.60 in, fell in 1956.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Appleton, 6 miles west. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
