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Sharon, Wisconsin

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1980. It stands in Sharon Village. It lies in ZIP code area 53585. The Survey maps it on the Sharon quadrangle. 1,586 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Sharon within Walworth County

On record in Sharon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Sharon fell from 1,605 to 1,586 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,605
20201,586-19 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sharon between 2018 and 2019, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 April 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources19126
22 March 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resources83

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walworth County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sharon: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mchenry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Walworth County

Storms near this place

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sharon in 23 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023Tornado (EF0)Sharon$400,000Tornado started near the Illinois state line and tracked northward toward Delavan Lake. A number of farm outbuildings had roofing panels lofted off of them and a subdivision south of Delavan Lake had a number of large trees toppled. Tornado appeared to end north of Lake Lawn Resort, which had some tree damage to it.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindSharon$300,000no account filed
September 1997Thunderstorm WindSharon$250,000no account filed
August 2007Flash FloodSharon$150,000Low-end flash flooding affected scattered parts of Walworth County. Areas affected were the city of Lake Geneva, the village of Sharon, the town of Lyons, and the Town of Spring Prairie. Overnight rainfall amounts on top of a nearly saturated ground ranged from around 3 inches over the southern parts of the county to 4 to 6 inches over the northern parts, based on WSR-88D doppler estimates. Water depths on some roads in low spots reached 2 to 4 feet, and significant soil erosion was noted in the surrounding countryside. At least 20 homes sustained minor flood damage to basement contents. Altogether, residential damage was estimated at $31,000. Gravel shoulder washouts on some roads will require an estimated $19,500 to repair. The Sharon Department of Public Works sewer pumps were damaged by flood waters, and repair costs are estimated at $6,200. No major crop losses were reported. At a location 4ENE East Troy, 5.83 was measured overnight.
March 2023Tornado (EF1)Sharon$100,000Tail end of the tornado that began in northern Illinois and tracked just to the southeast to northeast of Sharon. A few barns had roofing damage to them.
September 2019Flash FloodSharon$15,000Flash flooding and closures of multiple roads across the southern portion of the county. Flash flooding of the White River led to flooded yards and a trailer being swept away.
September 1997LightningSharon$10,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSharon$5,000An isolated downburst leveled trees on the southwest side of the village. There was slight power-line damage.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindSharon$5,000Isolated severe thunderstorms produced hail up to 1 inch in diameter and winds to 69 mph over Waukesha county and knocked down trees and power lines in Sharon (Walworth county).
July 1998Thunderstorm WindSharon$5,000no account filed
June 2013Flash FloodSharon$4,000The Walworth County Emergency Manager reported roads flooded and closed due to heavy rains in the area between Delavan and Sharon.
November 2020Thunderstorm WindSharon$2,000A tall tree snapped off and landed onto the roof of a home in Sharon.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindSharon$1,000A large tree was blown down.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindSharon$1,000no account filed
April 2022Funnel CloudSharon-A photograph of a funnel cloud near the Village of Sharon was shared by broadcast media.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSharon-Law enforcement officials reported trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph).
January 2008Thunderstorm WindSharon-A few large trees were uprooted or damaged east/southeast of Sharon along the state line. This damage was produced by the same supercell that spun up a tornado northeast of Pell Lake in southeast Walworth County.
April 2008HailSharon-This hail report came from an airfield.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindSharon-Powerful thunderstorms winds knocked down large trees.
June 1998FloodSharon-The Little Sharon Creek overflowed due to heavy a rainfall of 3.5 inches in it's watershed overnight and flooded nearby Highway 67 with 1 foot standing water.
July 1997Tornado (F0)Sharon-A brief tornado touchdown between Highway B and County Line road caused minor damage to a corn field , destroying a 20 by 40 foot swath of produce.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSharon-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindSharon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walworth County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Allens Grove5.7 miles16
Darien6.9 miles19
Walworth7.1 miles19
Delavan Lake7.6 miles19
Pioneer Estates8.4 miles19
Fontana8.8 miles19
Fairfield9.4 miles17
Delavan10.1 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on SharonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2671465The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1573968. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.