The Great Heron
The Great Heron is an artwork in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Alazan Mott stands 2 m to the south-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve, a park 0.4 miles away. Texas Tropical Trail passes 1.2 miles off. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Material
- metal
How to reach it
- 1.2 mi off the Texas Tropical Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Oso Bay Wetlands Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Victoria Park: 0.8 mi
- Victoria Park: 0.9 mi
- Peary Park: 0.9 mi
- South Fork Park: 1.1 mi
- Sunshine Cemetery: 1.4 mi
- Flour Bluff Independent School District: 2.6 mi
- Flour Bluff: 2.7 mi
- Naval Air Station Corpus Christi: 2.7 mi
- German POW Camp at NAS Corpus Christi: 2.7 mi
- Texas Surf Museum: 9.5 mi
- Tejano Civil Rights Museum: 10.3 mi
- Museum Of Hispanic Culture: 10.3 mi
- Texas State Museum of Asian Cultures: 10.5 mi
- Art Museum of South Texas: 10.5 mi
- Hans and Pat Suter Wildlife Refuge: 2.6 mi
- Redhead Pond Wildlife Management Area: 3.3 mi
- Francine Cohn Preserve: 11.1 mi
- Shamrock Island Preserve: 11.7 mi
- Pelican Island Sanctuary: 15.0 mi
- University Beach: 3.3 mi
- J P Luby: 8.7 mi
- New Port Pass: 8.9 mi
- Corpus Christi North Beach: 11.3 mi
- Malaquite Beach: 16.0 mi
- Fourmile Hill: 9.1 mi
- Big Hill: 12.4 mi
- Little Dagger Hill: 14.4 mi
- Green Hill: 20.8 mi
- Alazan Mott: 20.9 mi
- Selena Memorial Statue: 9.6 mi
- Orion's Belt: 9.9 mi
- Corpus Christi Watergarden: 10.5 mi
- Giant milk bottle: 11.5 mi
- South Texas Botanical Garden & Nature Center: 4.6 mi
- Lytton Memorial Rose Garden: 10.3 mi
- The Learning Garden: 11.0 mi
- American Bank Center: 10.3 mi
- Fan Pavillion: 10.8 mi
- Port Aransas/Mustang Island Tourism Bureau & Chamber of Commerce: 19.9 mi
- McGloins Bluff: 12.8 mi
- Lydia Ann Lighthouse: 21.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Great Heron. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alazan Mott | SSW 207° | 2 m | 20.9 mi |
| Big Hill | S 170° | 1 m | 12.4 mi |
| Little Dagger Hill | S 176° | 1 m | 14.4 mi |
| Green Hill | S 184° | 1 m | 20.8 mi |
| Dagger Hill | S 184° | 1 m | 22.3 mi |
| Big Ball Hill | S 183° | 1 m | 24.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:10 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:35 | 19:55 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:56 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 17:05 | 17:40 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Apr.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 60 | 64 | 69 | 75 | 81 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 84 | 78 | 69 | 62 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 1.7 | 2.4 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.0 | 6.2 | 4.7 | 2.7 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Corpus Christi NAS, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/12040979666
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