The Sweden 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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81° on Nov. 11, 2020, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1893. Next is 74° in 2022.
Sweden’s center stands about 610 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 500 ft to 710 ft, a difference of 210 ft: rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Lockport Group (dolostone), from the Silurian, 425 to 434 million years old.
The section below crosses 8 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 31×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Shale. Age: Late Ordovician, 445 to 459 million years old. About 9 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 422 to 428 million years old. About 7 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Silurian, 425 to 434 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Sandstone, shale. Age: Silurian, 434 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Shale. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 1 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Silurian, 428 to 445 million years old. About 0.6 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 2 smaller units along the line are not listed.
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 Sweden reaches Lake Ontario by way of Salmon Creek: about 25 river miles. From the lake it goes down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sweden; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sweden has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 17° in February. About 36 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sweden normally reaches 49° and falls to 33°. The record high is 70°, in 1909; the record low 9°, in 1905. The most rain on this date, 0.64 in, fell in 1969.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1893 at Brockport, 3 miles north-northwest, 110 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
