Butterfly Garden
Butterfly Garden is a garden in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 15 m. Pepper Hill stands 3 m to the south-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Matagorda County Birding Nature Center, a nature reserve less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Independence Trail passes 2.5 miles off.
What to expect
- Access
- Customers only
How to reach it
- 2.5 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Le Tulle Park Lake: 0.2 mi
- LeTulle Placard: 0.3 mi
- LeTulle Park / City Placard: 0.3 mi
- Elliott's Ferry: 0.9 mi
- Dr. Henry Hofmann Loos: 1.2 mi
- Le Tulle Park: 0.3 mi
- Hardeman Park: 1.7 mi
- Duncan Park: 1.9 mi
- Henderson Park: 2.1 mi
- Amistad Park: 2.2 mi
- Matagorda County Birding Nature Center: 0.0 mi
- Matagorda County Birding Nature Center: 0.2 mi
- San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge: 14.9 mi
- San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge: 15.1 mi
- San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge: 15.5 mi
- Cactus Garden: 0.1 mi
- Hummingbird Garden: 0.1 mi
- Herb garden: 0.1 mi
- Rose Garden: 0.1 mi
- Palm and Bamboo Gardens: 0.1 mi
- Hasima: 14.6 mi
- Waterville: 17.6 mi
- Newgulf: 20.0 mi
- Plainview: 20.1 mi
- Preston: 20.6 mi
- Matagorda County Museum: 2.4 mi
- Museum Annex: 2.4 mi
- Matagorda County Museum: 2.7 mi
- El Campo Museum of Art, History, and Natural Science: 23.1 mi
- Columbia Historical Museum Association: 24.7 mi
- Metal Rooster: 3.1 mi
- Palapa Table for James Richard Marmion: 22.4 mi
- Gazebo for James Richard Marmion: 22.5 mi
- Backyard Park: 18.5 mi
- Hansen Park: 22.2 mi
- Pepper Hill: 19.8 mi
- Levi Jordan Plantation State Historical Site: 22.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Butterfly Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pepper Hill | SSW 210° | 3 m | 19.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:29 | 19:05 | 19:36 |
| June solstice | 06:27 | 19:52 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:51 | 19:22 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:56 | 17:32 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 53 | 57 | 63 | 68 | 75 | 80 | 82 | 82 | 78 | 71 | 62 | 55 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 4.4 | 5.7 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 5.8 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — BAY City WTR WKS, 2 mi away.
- Pond Slider119 obs
- American Bumble Bee35 obs
- Eastern Pondhawk31 obs
- American Bullfrog31 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel28 obs
- Northern Cardinal27 obs
- American Alligator25 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron22 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/564873136
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