The Kimball 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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71° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 69° in 1953.
Kimball’s center stands about 1,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,000 ft to 1,330 ft, a difference of 330 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Undifferentiated (conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone), from the Late Cretaceous, 72 to 100 million years old.
The section below crosses 5 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 56×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Conglomerate, sandstone, mudstone. Age: Late Cretaceous, 72 to 100 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Orthogneiss. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 1.8 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Gabbroic, dioritic. Age: Archean to Paleoproterozoic. 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.
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 Kimball reaches the Gulf of America by way of Willow Creek, the Clearwater and the Mississippi: about 1,920 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Pepin and Clearwater Lake.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Kimball; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Kimball has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 3° in January. A normal year brings about 48 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 28 inches of water.
On November 14 Kimball normally reaches 40° and falls to 23°. The record high is 68°, in 2025; the record low −8°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 1.37 in, fell in 1909.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 from the Saint Cloud Area threaded record (St. Cloud Regional Airport, 20 miles northeast, 140 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
