The Pike 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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−16° on Nov. 11, 2017, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is −16° in 2019.
Pike’s center stands about 1,460 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,390 ft to 1,530 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Pike Mountain, about 1,950 ft, 9 miles south-southwest.
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 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.
Granite, granodiorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Graywacke, mudstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Felsic-volcanic. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Metabasalt, greenstone. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 billion years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Monzonite, quartz-monzonite, granodiorite. Age: Neoarchean, 2.5 to 2.8 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 Pike reaches Hudson Bay by way of the Pike, the Vermilion, the Rainy, the Winnipeg and the Nelson: about 1,080 river miles. Past the border it runs north through Canada to Hudson Bay.
Lakes on the way: Lake of the Woods, Rainy Lake, Vermilion Lake and 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 Pike; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Pike has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 78° in July; winter nights fall to about −7° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Pike normally reaches 35° and falls to 18°. The record high is 58°, in 2016; the record low −11°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.64 in, fell in 2009.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Embarrass, 7 miles east-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
