The Sharpsburg 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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79° on Nov. 15, 2005, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1994. Next is 79° in 2011.
Sharpsburg’s center stands about 920 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 810 ft to 960 ft, a difference of 150 ft: gently rolling country.
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 64×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Gneiss, mica-schist, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 14 mi of the line.
Schist. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 7 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 3 mi of the line.
Biotite-gneiss, amphibolite. Age: Precambrian to Paleozoic. About 0.7 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.
A raindrop that lands in Sharpsburg reaches the Gulf of America by way of Pine Creek, White Oak Creek, the Flint and the Apalachicola: about 420 river miles.
290 miles of the trip are on the Flint.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sharpsburg; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sharpsburg has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 34° in January. About 49 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sharpsburg normally reaches 66° and falls to 41°. The record high is 79°, in 2011; the record low 22°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 0.79 in, fell in 2024.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1994 at Peachtree City Falcon Field, 5 miles east-northeast, 130 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
