Ghost town · Kansas
Broughton
Broughton is a ghost town in Kansas, at a modelled elevation of 361 m. Table Mounds stands 456 m to the west, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Fairgrounds Ball Park, a park 4.5 miles away. 116 named places lie within 25 miles, 21 of them named summits.
ghost town in Kansas, United States
How to reach it
Coordinates39.32139, -97.05335
116 named places within 25 miles
Parks: 55
- Fairgrounds Ball Park: 4.5 mi
- Dexter Park: 5.3 mi
- Utility Park: 5.5 mi
- Huntress Park: 6.0 mi
- Reed Park: 6.0 mi
Peaks: 21
- Twin Mounds: 7.8 mi
- Table Mounds: 12.0 mi
- Tobyne Hill: 12.0 mi
- Potato Hill: 13.0 mi
- Custer Hill: 19.2 mi
Historic sites: 15
- Magic School: 13.8 mi
- Buffalo Soldier Memorial: 22.6 mi
- General Leonard Wood Monument: 22.7 mi
- Funston Monument: 22.8 mi
- War Memorial: 23.2 mi
Museums: 8
- Clay County Museum: 5.4 mi
- Arts & Memories Museum: 12.3 mi
- Kansas First Territorial Capitol: 22.6 mi
- Cavalry Musuem: 23.0 mi
- Talmage Historical Society And Museum: 23.2 mi
Nature reserves: 6
- Kansas Landscape Arboretum: 8.9 mi
- Old Baldwin Creek Recreation Area: 18.5 mi
- Old Garrison Recreation Area: 20.4 mi
- Stockdale Recreation Area: 21.2 mi
- Willis Prarie: 22.5 mi
Cliffs: 6
- Backstop Ridge: 20.3 mi
- Republican Point: 20.8 mi
- Sherman Heights: 21.2 mi
- Williston Point: 21.8 mi
- Pawnee Point: 22.4 mi
Attractions: 3
- Locomotive 6072: 22.7 mi
- site of old UP Turntable and Roundhouse: 23.0 mi
- Site of old Union Pacific Engine Shops: 23.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Broughton. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Table Mounds | W 267° | 456 m | 12.0 mi |
| Potato Hill | W 265° | 445 m | 13.0 mi |
| Tobyne Hill | W 273° | 431 m | 12.0 mi |
| Custer Hill | SE 138° | 411 m | 19.2 mi |
| Four Way Divide | SE 140° | 410 m | 19.6 mi |
| Twin Mounds | W 276° | 406 m | 7.8 mi |
| Morris Hill | SE 139° | 406 m | 20.8 mi |
| Randolph Hill | SE 135° | 404 m | 19.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:33 | 19:05 | 19:40 |
| June solstice | 06:03 | 20:19 | 20:59 |
| September equinox | 07:17 | 18:52 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:45 | 16:26 | 17:09 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 33 | 43 | 53 | 65 | 75 | 80 | 77 | 69 | 56 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.9 | 2.8 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 2.9 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 1.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Clay CTR, 5 mi away.
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