The Beaulieu 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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65° on Nov. 14, 2025, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1924. Next is 61° in 1981.
Beaulieu’s center stands about 1,360 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,280 ft to 1,470 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Jack Pine Hill, about 1,990 ft, 13 miles southeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granitic intrusion, from the Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 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 34×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granitic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 15 mi of the line.
Metabasalt, greenstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Granitic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 2 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 Beaulieu reaches Hudson Bay by way of Marsh Creek, the Wild Rice, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 1,140 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lake on the way: Lake Winnipeg.
400 miles of the trip are on the Nelson.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Beaulieu; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Beaulieu has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about −2° in January. About 26 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Beaulieu normally reaches 34° and falls to 20°. The record high is 65°, in 2025; the record low −8°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.50 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1924 at Mahnomen, 12 miles west-southwest, 150 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
