The Popple River 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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−17° on Nov. 15, 2014, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1896. Next is −11° in 1932.
Popple River’s center stands about 1,530 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,500 ft to 1,680 ft, a difference of 180 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granite-tonalite (granite, tonalite, gneiss), from the Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 1.9 billion 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 47×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granite, tonalite, gneiss. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 1.9 billion years old. About 20 mi of the line.
Basalt, basaltic-andesite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion 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 Popple River reaches Lake Michigan by way of Coldwater Creek, the Long Lake Outlet, the Fay Lake Outlet, the Pine River and the Menominee: about 150 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
100 miles of the trip are on the Menominee.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Popple River; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Popple River has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 77° in July; winter nights fall to about 0° in January. A normal year brings about 67 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 30 inches of water.
On November 14 Popple River normally reaches 38° and falls to 21°. The record high is 66°, in 1999; the record low −4°, in 1911. The most rain on this date, 1.60 in, fell in 1909.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1896 at Stambaugh 2 SSE, 18 miles north. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
