The Sherry 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. 17, 1953, the hottest reading for this week of the year since 1912. Next is 68° in 1964.
Sherry’s center stands about 1,160 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 1,130 ft to 1,240 ft, a difference of 110 ft: gently rolling country.
Under the town center the state geologic map shows Milladore Volcanic Complex (metasedimentary, metavolcanic), from the Paleoproterozoic, 1.9 to 1.9 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.
Metasedimentary, metavolcanic. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.9 to 1.9 billion years old. About 16 mi of the line.
Sandstone. Age: Cambrian, 487 to 542 million years old. About 5 mi of the line.
Granodiorite, tonalite. Age: Paleoproterozoic, 1.6 to 2.5 billion years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Dolostone. Age: Early Ordovician, 471 to 487 million years old. About 0.8 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 Sherry reaches the Gulf of America by way of East Fork Hemlock Creek, Hemlock Creek, the Yellow, the Wisconsin and the Mississippi: about 1,840 river miles.
Lake on the way: Lake Wisconsin.
Traced down the USGS NHDPlus V2.1 river network from the Census center point of Sherry; river miles along the main stem, rounded.
Sherry has a warm-summer humid continental climate. Summer afternoons average 80° in July; winter nights fall to about 6° in January. A normal year brings about 57 inches of snow; with the rain, that comes to about 34 inches of water.
On November 14 Sherry normally reaches 42° and falls to 26°. The record high is 68°, in 1990; the record low 1°, in 1959. The most rain on this date, 0.40 in, fell in 2008.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1912 at Marshfield Experiment Farm, 11 miles west-northwest. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
