Texas Ranger
Texas Ranger is an artwork in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 139 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Waller Creek Bridge, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 4.1 miles off. 38 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Material
- bronze
How to reach it
- 4.1 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 22.5 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 24.1 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 23 mi
- Sinkholes · 30 mi
- Wetland Wonders · 30 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Waller Creek Bridge: 0.0 mi
- F. Weigl Iron Works: 0.1 mi
- Hofheintz-Reissig Store: 0.1 mi
- O. Henry: 0.2 mi
- Headquarters of US Army, 5th Military Dist.: 0.2 mi
- Sir Swante Palm Neighborhood Park: 0.1 mi
- Brush Square: 0.2 mi
- El Pequeño Parque: 0.3 mi
- Roy and Matías Velázquez Plaza: 0.4 mi
- Sanchez School Park: 0.4 mi
- Aquifer: 0.2 mi
- Historic 6th Street: 0.3 mi
- Tau Ceti: 0.3 mi
- Una Canción de Fe y Familia: 0.3 mi
- Stem Rack: 0.3 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 2.1 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 2.8 mi
- Alpine Road Site: 3.0 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 3.6 mi
- Shudde Fath Tract: 4.1 mi
- Explorers Garden: 0.2 mi
- Brazos Bluff: 0.3 mi
- Congress Avenue Rain Garden: 0.4 mi
- East Avenue Rain Garden: 0.6 mi
- Festival Beach Food Forest: 0.7 mi
- Joseph And Susanna Dickinson Hannig Museum: 0.2 mi
- O. Henry Museum: 0.2 mi
- Museum of the Weird: 0.3 mi
- Mexic-Arte Museum: 0.4 mi
- Texas Toy Museum and Arcade: 0.4 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 4.5 mi
- Mount Larson: 4.6 mi
- Mount Barker: 4.8 mi
- Mount Lucas: 5.1 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 5.4 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 0.5 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 0.5 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 0.5 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 1.2 mi
- Rock Wall At Zilker: 1.8 mi
- Twin Falls: 4.6 mi
- Sculpture Falls: 5.1 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 5.2 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 5.4 mi
- Hill of Life Falls: 5.6 mi
- Eliza Spring: 1.9 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 2.3 mi
- Seiders Spring: 3.0 mi
- Shady Spring: 9.8 mi
- Queen's Bath: 15.3 mi
- McDuff: 16.6 mi
- New Sweden: 16.8 mi
- Goforth: 17.0 mi
- Lytton Springs: 19.3 mi
- Palm Valley: 20.6 mi
- Bird Bluff: 2.7 mi
- Seismic Wall: 3.9 mi
- Fern Bluff: 18.0 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 20.8 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 5.1 mi
- Stone picnic table: 5.3 mi
- The Learning Tree: 7.8 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 14.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Texas Ranger. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 277° | 433 m | 21.0 mi |
| Gainor Mountain | WSW 255° | 429 m | 24.9 mi |
| Lone Man Mountain | WSW 239° | 416 m | 24.5 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 256° | 406 m | 20.7 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 278° | 364 m | 15.3 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | WNW 288° | 360 m | 14.8 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 249° | 353 m | 13.8 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 326° | 346 m | 23.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:31 | 20:01 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 53 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 78 | 68 | 59 | 51 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin 6S, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/13918575386
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- Austin · 0 mi
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