The Schoepke 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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−9° on Nov. 16, 1932, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is −6° in 1933.
Schoepke’s center stands about 1,620 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,520 ft to 1,690 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is East Hill, about 1,890 ft, 13 miles east-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granitic rocks of 1760-Ma age group (granite, granodiorite), from the Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 1.8 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 57×. 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, andesite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.9 to 1.9 billion years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Metavolcanic. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 1.8 billion years old. About 4 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.
Schoepke straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the east side runs to Lake Michigan; most of the rest goes to the Gulf of America.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pelican Lake, the Pelican, the Wisconsin and the Mississippi: about 1,980 river miles. One that lands on the east side reaches Lake Michigan by way of Pedro Creek, the Wolf River and the Fox River: about 270 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Lakes on the way: Petenwell Lake, Pelican Lake, Lake Wisconsin and Lake Du Bay.
1,610 miles of the trip are on the Mississippi.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Schoepke; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Schoepke has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 4° in January. About 30 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Schoepke normally reaches 40° and falls to 23°. The record high is 63°, in 1953; the record low −3°, in 1916. The most rain on this date, 0.49 in, fell in 1930.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 from the Rhinelander Area threaded record (Rhinelander Oneida County Airport, 18 miles west-northwest). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
