The Belgium 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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67° on Nov. 17, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1890. Next is 66° in 2001.
Belgium’s center stands about 950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 910 ft to 1,000 ft, a difference of 90 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Granodiorite to hornblende diorite, locally magmatically foliated (granodiorite, diorite), from the Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Granodiorite, diorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 24 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 Belgium reaches Hudson Bay by way of Grand Marais Creek, the Red River of the North and the Nelson: about 950 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 Belgium; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Belgium has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about −4° in January. About 22 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Belgium normally reaches 37° and falls to 20°. The record high is 64°, in 2016; the record low −11°, in 1919. The most rain on this date, 0.89 in, fell in 1944.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1890 at Crookston Nw Experiment Sta, 11 miles south-southwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
