Adding to this confusion, the preliminary report of the original leveling party included three unnamed knobs three miles east of the Brule Mountain in the Misquah Hills as well, roughly in the area of Peak 2266.

[4] At this modest elevation the Misquah Hills nevertheless are the highest points for over five hundred miles (~800 km) in any direction, as well as the second-highest range of the Canadian Shield in the US, after the Adirondack Mountains.

[5] The bedrock of the Misquah Hills is a granophyre within the Duluth Complex,[6] a relatively recent addition to the larger Precambrian rock formations of the Canadian Shield.

The Misquahs are geological cousins of the Adirondacks and the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec;[8] they bear some visual resemblance to these ranges, though on a smaller scale.

A United States Department of the Interior survey team remeasured several summits in the Misquahs in 1961, using aerial photographs and benchmarking (geolocating), resulting in the current set of height measurements.