The Maple Grove 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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Showers likely
72° on Nov. 13, 1999, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1967. Next is 71° in 2025.
Maple Grove’s center stands about 950 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 870 ft to 1,020 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country.
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 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.
Sandstone, siltstone, shale. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 497 million years old. About 11 mi of the line.
Shale, limestone, sandstone. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 445 to 471 million years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Dolostone, sandstone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 3 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 Maple Grove reaches the Gulf of America by way of Elm Creek and the Mississippi: about 1,860 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Pepin.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Maple Grove; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Maple Grove has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 82° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. A normal year brings about 54 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 35 inches of water.
On November 14 Maple Grove normally reaches 42° and falls to 26°. The record high is 71°, in 2025; the record low 5°, in 2014. The most rain on this date, 0.19 in, fell in 2022.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1967 at New Hope, 6 miles southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
