The Grand View 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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−8° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is −7° in 1956.
Grand View’s center stands about 1,060 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 900 ft to 1,280 ft, a difference of 380 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Mount Telemark, about 1,710 ft, 15 miles south-southwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Chengwatana Volcanic Group (basalt), from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
The section below crosses 4 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 27×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Basalt. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 13 mi of the line.
Arkose, siltstone. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 10 mi of the line.
Sandstone, conglomerate. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 0.4 mi of the line.
Siltstone, shale. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 0.3 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.
Grand View straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the south side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to Lake Superior.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Lake Superior by way of Pre-emption Creek, Twentymile Creek, Long Lake Branch, the White River and the Bad River: about 60 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the south side reaches the Gulf of America by way of Taylor Creek, the Namekagon, the Saint Croix and the Mississippi: about 2,030 river miles.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Grand View; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Grand View has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 79° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. About 28 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Grand View normally reaches 41° and falls to 25°. The record high is 64°, in 1990; the record low −2°, in 1940. The most rain on this date, 0.88 in, fell in 1951.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 from the Ashland Area threaded record (Ashland Kennedy Memorial Airport, 15 miles northeast, 240 ft lower). NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
