The St. Paul 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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4.19 inches of rain fell in two days, the most for this week of the year since records began in 1957. The next wettest, 2.96 inches, fell in 2003.
St. Paul’s center stands about 530 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 430 ft to 620 ft, a difference of 190 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is McAdams Peak, about 830 ft, 14 miles northeast.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 57×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Clay, silt, sand. Age: Holocene, less than 12,000 years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Limestone. Age: Middle Mississippian, 331 to 347 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone, limestone, dolostone. Age: Middle Ordovician to Late Ordovician, 454 to 468 million years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
Limestone, dolostone. Age: Late Ordovician, 447 to 454 million years old. About 0.5 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units 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 St. Paul reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Cuivre and the Mississippi: about 1,210 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of St. Paul; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
St. Paul has a hot-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 88° in July; winter nights fall to about 21° in January. A normal year brings about 14 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 44 inches of water.
On November 14 St. Paul normally reaches 56° and falls to 35°. The record high is 80°, in 1989; the record low 10°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 2.00 in, fell in 1993.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1957 at Weldon Spring Nws, 11 miles south-southeast. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
