Courthouse Rock
Courthouse Rock is a cliff in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 367 m. Mast Knob stands 1,221 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Green Hill, a peak 1.6 miles away. Little Kanawha Parkway passes 13 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 367 m
How to reach it
- 12.8 mi off the Little Kanawha Parkway
- 18.1 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 26.1 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Green Hill: 1.6 mi
- Moon Hill: 3.2 mi
- Sugar Knob: 3.3 mi
- Pleasant Hill: 3.9 mi
- High Knob: 4.3 mi
- Fort Pickens Monument: 3.5 mi
- Falls Mill Access Area: 5.0 mi
- Bulltown Historic Area: 5.7 mi
- Bulltown Recreation Area: 6.0 mi
- Burnsville Lake Wildlife Management Area: 8.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 9.6 mi
- Gilmer County: 15.5 mi
- Dollar General Trailer: 18.0 mi
- Old Hill Cemetary: 19.9 mi
- The National Exchange Bank Of Weston: 20.0 mi
- Fidler's Mill - Historic Gristmill & Building: 7.6 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum: 20.1 mi
- West Virginia Museum of American Glass: 20.1 mi
- Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (West Virginia Hospital for the Insane/Weston State Hospital): 20.2 mi
- Mountaineer Military Museum: 20.2 mi
- Tecumseh Falls: 8.2 mi
- Tenskwatawa Falls: 9.6 mi
- Burnsville Waterfall: 10.8 mi
- West Virginia Wildlife Reserve: 11.5 mi
- Stonewall Resort State Park: 14.0 mi
- Cedar Creek State Park: 22.9 mi
- Hanging Rock: 4.4 mi
- Raven Rocks: 22.4 mi
- Bulltown Swimming Area: 5.9 mi
- Bee Run Swimming Area: 13.0 mi
- Helvetia Village Historic District: 14.9 mi
- Weston Historic Walking Tour: 20.1 mi
- Bulltown: 5.8 mi
- Bulltown Picnic Area: 6.2 mi
- Buckhannon Mural: 21.4 mi
- Biology Demonstration Garden: 23.4 mi
- Frametown Rest Area: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 19.4 miles of Courthouse Rock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mast Knob | ESE 118° | 1,221 m | 19.1 mi |
| Back Fork Mountain | SE 124° | 1,138 m | 18.3 mi |
| Turkeybone Mountain | ESE 117° | 1,132 m | 17.1 mi |
| Beech Mountain | ESE 106° | 1,083 m | 18.8 mi |
| Bee Knob | ESE 123° | 1,082 m | 16.5 mi |
| Potato Knob | SSE 149° | 1,077 m | 17.9 mi |
| Round Knob | ESE 111° | 1,073 m | 18.5 mi |
| High Germany Knob | E 91° | 1,065 m | 19.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 05:58 | 20:11 | 20:51 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:46 | 19:21 |
| December solstice | 07:37 | 16:22 | 17:04 |
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 | 32 | 39 | 49 | 58 | 65 | 69 | 68 | 62 | 51 | 41 | 34 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.3 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 5.2 | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hacker Valley, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356516239
Day trips start here
- Weston · 20 mi
- Buckhannon · 21 mi
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