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Herb Garden

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Herb Garden is a garden in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 146 m. Potato Hill stands 218 m to the southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Belleville Heart Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Great River Road passes 12 miles off. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Belleville Heart Garden
Access
Yes
Fee
No

How to reach it

Coordinates38.50562, -89.98252

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Belle-Clair Speedway: 0.4 mi
  • South Side Park: 0.4 mi
  • Khoury League Park: 0.5 mi
  • Ever and Anon Park: 0.6 mi
  • East End Park: 0.6 mi
Museums
  • Emma Kunz County Museum: 0.4 mi
  • St. Clair County Historical Society: 0.6 mi
  • Labor & Industrial Museum: 0.7 mi
  • O'Fallon Historical Society: 7.1 mi
  • Mascoutah Heritage Museum: 9.7 mi
Historic sites
  • September 11 Memorial Walkway of Southern Illinois: 0.4 mi
  • Transportation Plaza: 6.7 mi
  • Historic Scott Gate: 6.8 mi
  • Airlifter's Memorial: 6.9 mi
  • O'Fallon Veterans Memorial: 7.9 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 28
Peaks: 19
  • Turkey Hill: 5.1 mi
  • Mt Millstadt: 6.5 mi
  • Clarks Mound: 7.0 mi
  • Haubers Hill: 9.7 mi
  • Rattlesnake Mound: 10.5 mi
Picnic sites: 18
Nature reserves: 17
Springs: 5
  • Falling Spring: 11.0 mi
  • Headwaters: 15.7 mi
  • Caroline Loughlin Fountain: 16.9 mi
  • Cabanne Spring: 18.0 mi
  • Webster Retention Pond Seep: 20.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Waterfalls: 2
  • Wise Falls: 17.8 mi
  • Deer Lake Riffles: 18.5 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Stone Arch: 19.6 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Potato HillSW 228°218 m23.2 mi
Clarks MoundNW 317°196 m7.0 mi
Turkey HillESE 119°185 m5.1 mi
Fox HillN 354°182 m13.8 mi
Browns MoundNNE 17°174 m14.3 mi
Berger HillENE 59°171 m14.1 mi
Neudeckers MountainNNE 27°171 m22.1 mi
Haubers HillSE 138°166 m9.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0418:3719:12
June solstice05:3719:4820:28
September equinox06:4818:2418:59
December solstice07:1516:0116:43

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343848586876797770604837
Precip in2.62.23.44.95.04.64.03.93.43.13.62.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Belleville SIU Rsch, 7 mi away.

  • Northern Cardinal70 obs
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee37 obs
  • Monarch28 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee25 obs
  • American Robin24 obs
  • Black Swallowtail18 obs
  • Mourning Dove17 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail17 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.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1211907535

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