The Breezy Point 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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68° on Nov. 17, 1913, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1887. Next is 68° in 1953.
Breezy Point’s center stands about 1,250 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,200 ft to 1,370 ft, a difference of 170 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Maple Hill, about 1,590 ft, 13 miles west.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Schist of sedimentary protolith, from the Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old.
The section below crosses 7 rock units mapped at the surface.
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.
Schist. 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 5 mi of the line.
Metabasalt, greenstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Quartzite, conglomerate, mudstone. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Tonalite, granodiorite, diorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Siltstone, graywacke, slate. 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. 1 smaller unit along the line are not listed.
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 Breezy Point reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pelican Lake, Pelican Brook, the Pine River and the Mississippi: about 2,020 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Pepin and Pelican Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Breezy Point; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Breezy Point has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about −1° in January. A normal year brings about 39 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 29 inches of water.
On November 14 Breezy Point normally reaches 39° and falls to 23°. The record high is 63°, in 2016; the record low −4°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 1.00 in, fell in 1926.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1887 at Pine River Dam, 6 miles northeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
