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Cream Ridge

Cream Ridge from directly overhead

Cream Ridge is a ghost town in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 226 m. Mound Bogard stands 290 m to the south, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is June Shaffer Memorial Park, a park 4.0 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 188 miles off. 66 named places lie within 25 miles, 5 of them named summits.

human settlement in Missouri, United States of America

How to reach it

Coordinates39.78528, -93.46278

66 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 35
  • June Shaffer Memorial Park: 4.0 mi
  • Wheeling City Park: 4.0 mi
  • Daryl Danner Memorial Park: 4.4 mi
  • Downtown Greenway: 4.9 mi
  • Gravesville Park: 5.0 mi
Ghost towns: 7
Peaks: 5
  • Shale Hill: 10.0 mi
  • Stokes Mound: 13.6 mi
  • Round Tater Hill: 17.4 mi
  • Long Tater Hill: 17.4 mi
  • Mound Bogard: 22.4 mi
Museums: 3
Artworks: 3
  • American War Mothers Memorial: 13.2 mi
  • Maxie, The World's Largest Goose: 14.7 mi
  • Brookfield Pepsi-Cola Mural: 20.7 mi
Historic sites: 2
Gardens: 1
  • Trenton Community Garden: 22.0 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mound BogardS 190°290 m22.4 mi
Stokes MoundS 184°277 m13.6 mi
Long Tater HillSSW 193°273 m17.4 mi
Shale HillWSW 256°267 m10.0 mi
Round Tater HillSSW 192°252 m17.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1818:5019:26
June solstice05:4720:0620:46
September equinox07:0218:3719:13
December solstice07:3216:1016:53

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F253041526373777567554131
Precip in1.31.82.93.75.45.24.74.64.43.22.31.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chillicothe 2S, 4 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location confirmed against Wikidata.

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