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Clock Tower Garden

Clock Tower Garden from directly overhead

Clock Tower Garden is a garden in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 162 m. Robbs Mound stands 198 m to the northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Edwardsville National Bank Clock Tower, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic Route 66 runs past it. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Native plant garden managed by the Edwardsville Beautification and Tree Commission

Visiting

What to expect

Access
Yes
Fee
No
Getting there

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Coordinates38.81384, -89.95829

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Parks
  • Hotz Park: 0.2 mi
  • City Plaza: 0.2 mi
  • Lusk Park: 0.3 mi
  • Edwardsville City Park: 0.3 mi
  • Leon Corlew Park: 0.5 mi
Artworks
Museums: 56
  • Madison County Historical Museum: 0.3 mi
  • Route 66 Museum and Interpretative Center: 0.4 mi
  • 1820 Colonel Benjamin Stephenson House: 0.6 mi
  • Edwardsville Children's Museum: 0.8 mi
  • Glen Carbon Heritage Museum: 4.6 mi
Gardens: 56
Attractions: 30
Nature reserves: 15
Peaks: 13
  • Fox Hill: 8.0 mi
  • Browns Mound: 8.1 mi
  • Neudeckers Mountain: 9.0 mi
  • Monks Mound: 12.0 mi
  • Rattlesnake Mound: 13.0 mi
Picnic sites: 12
Springs: 7
  • Bellefontaine Spring: 13.8 mi
  • Oak Spring: 16.2 mi
  • Cabanne Spring: 20.6 mi
  • Headwaters: 21.2 mi
  • Caroline Loughlin Fountain: 21.9 mi
Rest areas: 5
Ghost towns: 5
Waterfalls: 4
  • Beaver Falls: 15.6 mi
  • Creek Trek Waterfall: 16.3 mi
  • Wise Falls: 20.9 mi
  • Deer Lake Riffles: 20.9 mi
Cliffs: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Clock Tower Garden. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Robbs MoundNE 55°198 m23.2 mi
Clarks MoundSSW 201°196 m17.3 mi
Turkey HillS 173°185 m24.0 mi
Fox HillSSW 199°182 m8.0 mi
Browns MoundSSE 159°174 m8.1 mi
Neudeckers MountainE 101°171 m9.0 mi
Berger HillSE 142°171 m17.7 mi
Art HillWSW 236°165 m21.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0418:3719:12
June solstice05:3619:4920:29
September equinox06:4818:2318:59
December solstice07:1516:0016:42

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303544566675787770584535
Precip in2.52.53.54.95.53.43.93.33.42.93.42.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Alton - Melvin Price L&D, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Monarch51 obs
  • Red-winged Blackbird35 obs
  • American pokeweed33 obs
  • Pearl Crescent33 obs
  • White-tailed Deer28 obs
  • Eastern Pondhawk28 obs
  • Canada Goose26 obs
  • DeKay's Brownsnake26 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1154840155

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