Pierce Beach
Pierce Beach is a beach in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 4 m. Copicut Hill stands 109 m to the southeast, 4.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Conservation Land, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. Route 114 and High Street passes 8.0 miles off.
The story
beach in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States
Wikidata Q49322523, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 4 m
How to reach it
- 8.0 mi off the Route 114 and High Street
- 8.0 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
- 12.1 mi off the Veteran's Memorial Parkway
- 17.6 mi off the Great and Breakneck Hill Roads
Overlooks nearby
- Gaspee Point Overlook · 13 mi
- Prospect Terrace Viewpoint · 15 mi
- Lookout Point · 19 mi
- Sunset Ledge · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Conservation Land: 0.3 mi
- Conservation Land: 0.4 mi
- Mallard Point: 0.9 mi
- Conservation Land: 1.0 mi
- Quirk Mello Conservation Area: 1.5 mi
- Village Waterfront Park: 0.5 mi
- Potterville School Playground: 1.1 mi
- Buffington Park: 1.2 mi
- Buffington Park: 1.2 mi
- KRR Complex: 2.5 mi
- Hunters Hill: 2.6 mi
- Richmond Hill: 2.9 mi
- Hospital Hill: 3.8 mi
- Breakneck Hill: 4.2 mi
- Fox Hill: 4.2 mi
- Commonwealth Park "Green Monstah" Mural: 3.4 mi
- Rachel Carson Ecological Pier: 6.6 mi
- John Muir Ecological Pier: 6.7 mi
- Marjorie Stoneman Douglas Ecological Pier: 6.8 mi
- Aldo Leopold Ecological Pier: 6.8 mi
- Children’s Museum of Greater Fall River: 4.1 mi
- Martin House and Farm: 6.5 mi
- Pokanoket Tribal lands: 8.0 mi
- Carpenter Museum: 8.0 mi
- Charles W. Greene Museum: 8.0 mi
- USS Massachusetts: 4.3 mi
- USS Hiddensee: 4.3 mi
- USS Lionfish: 4.3 mi
- USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr.: 4.4 mi
- Battleship Cove: 4.4 mi
- Brayton Point Beach: 4.5 mi
- Swansea Town Beach: 5.2 mi
- Juniper Trail Beach: 7.3 mi
- Warren Town Beach: 8.3 mi
- Bristol Town Beach: 9.8 mi
- Portas Da Cidade: 4.6 mi
- Helicopter Memorial: 6.1 mi
- Early Warren and the start of King Philip's War: 6.9 mi
- In Memory of Hugh Cole: 7.1 mi
- Warren Vietnam Memorial: 7.6 mi
- Fragrance Gardens: 8.0 mi
- Woodcart Garden: 9.8 mi
- Helfand Farm Community Gardens: 12.4 mi
- Rotch- Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum: 14.1 mi
- Roger Williams Park Garden: 14.1 mi
- Site #36: 18.5 mi
- 4: 18.6 mi
- 6: 18.6 mi
- 7: 18.6 mi
- 8: 18.6 mi
- Tree Point Rocks: 8.7 mi
- Ferry Cliff: 10.3 mi
- King Phillips Lookout: 10.8 mi
- Usher Rocks: 10.9 mi
- White Banks: 13.2 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (East Bound): 5.3 mi
- Rest Area I-195 (West Bound): 5.5 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 18.3 mi
- Interstate 95 Rest Area: 18.5 mi
- Bike Trail Parking - Rest Area: 20.1 mi
- Roger Williams Spring: 15.0 mi
- Crystal Spring: 16.4 mi
- Elizabeth Spring: 18.5 mi
- Plum Point Spring: 21.9 mi
- East Greenwich Falls: 18.6 mi
- Payne's Pond Falls: 18.7 mi
- The Falls: 23.4 mi
- Cascade Brook Falls: 23.8 mi
- Clark's Point Light: 16.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.6 miles of Pierce Beach. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Copicut Hill | SE 128° | 109 m | 4.8 mi |
| Pocasset Hill | SSW 201° | 95 m | 8.3 mi |
| Cook Hill | SSW 201° | 85 m | 7.7 mi |
| Great Meadow Hill | NNW 331° | 78 m | 9.0 mi |
| Townsend Hill | SSW 203° | 77 m | 6.8 mi |
| Townsend Hill | SSW 203° | 77 m | 6.8 mi |
| Great Rock | NW 309° | 71 m | 10.2 mi |
| Turkey Hill | SSW 210° | 69 m | 13.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:49 | 18:20 | 18:57 |
| June solstice | 05:11 | 19:41 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:33 | 18:07 | 18:44 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 15:33 | 16:18 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 38 | 48 | 58 | 67 | 72 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.0 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 3.2 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Taunton Muni AP, 10 mi away.
The nearest NOAA station publishes daily tide predictions.
NOAA CO-OPS station Steep Brook, Taunton River, MA, 2 miaway — today’s predictions live there.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1106454629
Day trips start here
- Somerset · 0 mi
- Swansea · 3 mi
- Fall River · 5 mi
- Freetown · 5 mi
- Warren · 8 mi
- Bristol County · 9 mi
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