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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70° on Nov. 11, 1964, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1941. Next is 69° in 1953.
Sharon’s center stands about 1,210 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,150 ft to 1,260 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Blackberry Hill, about 1,380 ft, 7 miles northwest.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Wolf River batholith; Red River Granite, from the Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old.
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.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 14 mi of the line.
Anorthosite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Mesoproterozoic, 1 to 1.6 billion years old. About 4 mi of the line.
Granite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion 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.
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.
Sharon straddles the St. Lawrence Divide. Rain on the northwest side runs to the Gulf of America; most of the rest goes to Lake Michigan.
From the center of town, a raindrop reaches Lake Michigan by way of the Tomorrow, the Waupaca, the Wolf River and the Fox River: about 160 river miles. From there it moves on through the Great Lakes, over Niagara Falls and down the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic. One that lands on the northwest side reaches the Gulf of America by way of the Plover, the Wisconsin and the Mississippi: about 1,850 river miles.
Lakes on the way: Lake Winnebago 6124, Lake Winneconne and Lake Butte des Morts.
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 warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 81° in July; winter nights fall to about 7° in January. About 34 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Sharon normally reaches 43° and falls to 27°. The record high is 68°, in 1999; the record low 6°, in 1996. The most rain on this date, 0.76 in, fell in 1994.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1941 at Rosholt, 5 miles east. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
