The Sherman 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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7° on Nov. 17, 1959, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1888. Next is 10° in 1911.
Sherman’s center stands about 690 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 660 ft to 800 ft, a difference of 140 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Udell Hills, about 1,090 ft, 12 miles north-northeast.
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 35×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Sandstone. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Late Devonian, 359 to 384 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Carboniferous, 324 to 359 million years old. About 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.
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 Sherman reaches Lake Michigan by way of the North Branch Lincoln and the Lincoln: about 20 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sherman; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sherman has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 19° in January. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sherman normally reaches 47° and falls to 34°. The record high is 64°, in 1909; the record low 15°, in 1986. The most rain on this date, 1.38 in, fell in 1957.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1888 at Manistee 3 SE, 12 miles north-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
