Editing New Brighton, Minnesota (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has an area of {{convert|7.06|sqmi|sqkm|2}}, of which {{convert|6.46|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is land and {{convert|0.60|sqmi|sqkm|2}} is water.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=November 13, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125061959/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|archive-date=January 25, 2012}}</ref> [[Rice Creek (Mississippi River)|Rice Creek]] flows through the northern part of the city.<ref>''King's Twin Cities Metro Street Atlas '04.''  Minneapolis: The Lawrence Group. 2004. {{ISBN|1-58301-215-X}}.</ref>

[[File:Interstate 35W - New Brighton, MN - panoramio (10).jpg|thumb|Interstate 35W|left]]New Brighton is at the intersection of Interstate Highways [[Interstate 35W (Minnesota)|35W]] and [[Interstate 694|694]]. It is geographically incongruent. From north to south it is not even, and east to west it is even in only a few places. A piece of the city sits on the east side of Interstate 35W isolated from the rest of the city.

Nearby places include [[Arden Hills, Minnesota|Arden Hills]], [[Shoreview, Minnesota|Shoreview]], [[Roseville, Minnesota|Roseville]], [[Saint Anthony Village, Minnesota|Saint Anthony Village]], [[Columbia Heights, Minnesota|Columbia Heights]], [[Fridley, Minnesota|Fridley]], [[Mounds View, Minnesota|Mounds View]], and [[Minneapolis]].

New Brighton is part of east–central Minnesota's glacial plain sandpile, which was flattened by glaciers during the [[Glacial history of Minnesota|most recent glacial advance]]. During the [[last glacial period]], massive ice sheets at least {{convert|0.62|mi|km|sigfig=1}} thick ravaged the landscape of the town and sculpted its current terrain, which can be easily seen in Long Lake Regional Park.<ref name="MNGeog">{{cite book|last=Ojakangas |first=Richard W. |author2=Charles L. Matsch |others=Illus. Dan Breedy |title=Minnesota's Geology |year=1982 |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |location=Minneapolis, Minnesota |isbn=0-8166-0953-5}}</ref> The [[Wisconsin glaciation]] left 12,000 years ago.<ref name="MNGeog"/> These glaciers covered all of Minnesota except the far southeast, an area characterized by steep hills and streams that cut into the [[bedrock]]. Since New Brighton's landscape is still recovering from the weight of the glaciers and going through [[post-glacial rebound]] and the turmoil this created, the landscape is poorly drained, which has created the numerous lakes and rivers in the city. Long Lake itself is the remnants of the glaciers, as it was a chunk of ice that was left behind, melted, and created the lake in the hole it occupied.