The Wausaukee 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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Wausaukee’s center stands about 750 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 690 ft to 920 ft, a difference of 230 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Tom, about 1,070 ft, 7 miles southwest.
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 4 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.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 1.9 billion years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite, granodiorite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.8 to 1.8 billion years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million 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.
A raindrop that lands in Wausaukee reaches Lake Michigan by way of Wolf Creek and the Menominee: about 50 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 Wausaukee; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
