Ghost town · Texas
Granville
Granville is a ghost town in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 82 m. Wolf Hill stands 111 m to the east-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Peavy, a ghost town 2.0 miles away. Texas Forest Trail passes 5.5 miles off. 121 named places lie within 25 miles, 8 of them named summits.
ghost town in Texas, United States
How to reach it
Coordinates31.28130, -94.84132
- 5.5 mi off the Texas Forest Trail
121 named places within 25 miles
Historic sites: 59
- City of Lufkin: 7.4 mi
- Collins-Shotwell House: 7.5 mi
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church: 8.0 mi
- Stranger's Rest Cemetery: 9.2 mi
- Southland Paper Mills, Inc.: 10.9 mi
Parks: 27
- Grace Dunne Richardson Park: 6.7 mi
- Alabama Creek WMA: 7.1 mi
- Morris Frank Park: 7.1 mi
- Chambers Park: 7.2 mi
- Kiwanis Park: 7.5 mi
Ghost towns: 17
- Peavy: 2.0 mi
- Durant: 9.4 mi
- Beulah: 12.2 mi
- Dunagan: 14.1 mi
- Rocky Springs: 14.8 mi
Peaks: 8
- Duck Roost: 8.6 mi
- Hooper Bluff: 9.2 mi
- The Island: 14.4 mi
- Sugar Mounds: 15.7 mi
- Bill Hill: 18.8 mi
Museums: 6
- Naranjo Museum of Natural History: 5.9 mi
- The History Center: 7.7 mi
- Museum of East Texas: 8.0 mi
- Texas Forestry Museum: 9.4 mi
- Huntington Heritage Museum: 15.7 mi
Cliffs: 2
- Hog Head Bluff: 7.3 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 8.0 mi
Artworks: 1
- Angelina College Roadrunner: 6.6 mi
Nature reserves: 1
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Granville. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wolf Hill | ESE 123° | 111 m | 21.9 mi |
| Rocky Hill | ESE 108° | 111 m | 23.6 mi |
| Bill Hill | ESE 118° | 101 m | 18.8 mi |
| Sugar Mounds | WNW 284° | 73 m | 15.7 mi |
| The Island | NNE 20° | 67 m | 14.4 mi |
| Hooper Bluff | S 185° | 52 m | 9.2 mi |
| Duck Roost | S 181° | 45 m | 8.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:59 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 06:16 | 19:52 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:46 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:45 | 17:22 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Jun, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 53 | 59 | 66 | 74 | 80 | 83 | 82 | 77 | 67 | 57 | 50 |
| Precip in | 4.7 | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lufkin Angelina CO AP, 6 mi away.
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