Shell Bluff
Shell Bluff is a cliff in South Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 43 m. High Head stands 51 m to the south-southeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Rhodes Mound, a peak 3.5 miles away. Millen-Jenkins County Scenic Byway passes 22 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 43 m
How to reach it
- 22.2 mi off the Millen-Jenkins County Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- John Harley Park: 7.0 mi
- McBean Community Park: 9.3 mi
- New Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam Park: 12.3 mi
- Waynesboro City Park: 14.6 mi
- Steel Creek Boat Ramp: 15.1 mi
- Spirit Creek Baptist Church: 14.9 mi
- Home of Governor Telfair: 18.3 mi
- The First Academy of Richmond County: 18.7 mi
- Signers' Monument: 18.8 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney: 19.0 mi
- Sun Lion: 18.9 mi
- What's In The Queue?: 19.0 mi
- Ruthless: 19.0 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney: 19.0 mi
- Book Bench- A Novel Idea: 19.0 mi
- Woodrow Wilson's Boyhood Home: 18.9 mi
- Augusta Museum of History: 18.9 mi
- Lucy Craft Laney Museum: 19.0 mi
- Morris Museum of Art: 19.4 mi
- Aiken County Historical Museum: 23.4 mi
- Lower Silver Bluff: 5.1 mi
- Silver Bluff: 6.2 mi
- Barney Bluff: 6.9 mi
- Blue Bluff: 8.7 mi
- New Savannah Bluff: 12.3 mi
- Phinizy Swamp Nature Park: 13.8 mi
- Augusta Exchange Club Fairgrounds: 18.1 mi
- Gertrude Herbert Memorial Institute of Art: 18.6 mi
- Old Academy of Richmond County Park: 18.7 mi
- Augusta Cotton Exchange Building: 19.1 mi
- Burkeland Garden: 14.5 mi
- Boardman Family Garden: 19.2 mi
- Japanese pocket garden: 19.4 mi
- Village Fruit and Vegetable Garden: 20.6 mi
- Community Garden Plots: 21.3 mi
- Ellenton: 4.3 mi
- New Savannah: 12.3 mi
- Meyers Mill: 13.5 mi
- Dunbarton: 16.6 mi
- Hamburg: 19.2 mi
- Rhodes Mound: 3.5 mi
- Whites Mound: 7.2 mi
- High Head: 10.3 mi
- Potlikker Hill: 19.1 mi
- Phinizy Swamp Nature Park: 13.6 mi
- Di-Lane WMA: 23.1 mi
- Ditch Pond Heritage Preserve: 24.3 mi
- Willie Barton's Spring: 22.4 mi
- Bebbington Springs: 22.6 mi
- Coker Springs: 23.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Shell Bluff. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Head | SSE 160° | 51 m | 10.3 mi |
| Potlikker Hill | SE 135° | 50 m | 19.1 mi |
| Rhodes Mound | NW 315° | 34 m | 3.5 mi |
| Whites Mound | NW 321° | 33 m | 7.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:32 | 19:07 | 19:39 |
| June solstice | 06:19 | 20:04 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 07:16 | 18:53 | 19:26 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:47 | 17:25 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 47 | 51 | 58 | 65 | 73 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 76 | 66 | 56 | 49 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 3.7 | 4.1 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Augusta Bush FLD AP, 13 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/358756855
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