The Sharon 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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18° on Nov. 15, 1969, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1899. Next is 20° in 1933.
Sharon’s center stands about 640 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 460 ft to 750 ft, a difference of 290 ft: rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Henry Knob, about 1,140 ft, 13 miles north-northeast.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Amphibolite and amphibolite gneiss (amphibolite, gneiss), from the Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 42×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Ordovician, 445 to 1,000 million years old. About 6 mi of the line.
Metagranite, metadiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Metatonalite, granodiorite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Cambrian, 487 to 1,000 million years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Amphibolite, gneiss. Age: Neoproterozoic to Paleozoic, 252 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Metavolcanic. Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Age: Neoproterozoic, 542 to 1,000 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 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 Sharon reaches the Atlantic Ocean by way of Bullock Creek, the Broad, the Congaree, the Santee and the South Santee: about 270 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lib Pines Lake.
75 miles of the trip are on the Broad.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sharon; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sharon has a humid subtropical climate. Summer afternoons average 91° in July; winter nights fall to about 32° in January. About 43 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sharon normally reaches 64° and falls to 41°. The record high is 81°, in 1931; the record low 21°, in 2013. The most rain on this date, 1.33 in, fell in 1940.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1899 at Winthrop University, 17 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
