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Ashville Monumnet

Ashville Monumnet from directly overhead

Ashville Monumnet is a historic site in Pennsylvania, at a modelled elevation of 515 m. Blue Knob stands 953 m to the south, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Ashville Fire Co Play Ground, a park 0.1 miles away. Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway passes 27 miles off. 41 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

borough of Pennsylvania

Dates from 1842.

Wikidata Q923495, matched on coordinates and name (42 m apart).

The record

What the record says

Material
stone
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.55909, -78.54729
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Ashville Fire Co Play Ground: 0.1 mi
  • Gallitzin Legion Park: 4.9 mi
  • Gallitzin Tunnelhill Park: 5.3 mi
  • Penn Cambria Football Field: 6.7 mi
  • Veterans Park: 7.0 mi
Peaks: 41
  • Chestnut Flats: 4.4 mi
  • Red Hill: 6.3 mi
  • Headache Hill: 7.4 mi
  • Brush Mountain: 12.4 mi
  • Chimney Rocks: 12.8 mi
Historic sites: 22
  • Admiral Peary Monument: 7.3 mi
  • Coke Ovens: 7.6 mi
  • Old In-town Altoona airstrip: 10.2 mi
  • War Memorial: 10.6 mi
  • Bendel-Davis-Curtis home: 10.8 mi
Museums: 17
  • Galliztin Tuneels Museum: 5.3 mi
  • Keirn Family World War II Museum: 5.9 mi
  • Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art: 6.2 mi
  • Lemon House: 7.1 mi
  • A Quaint Corner Children's Museum & Discovery Center: 8.1 mi
Attractions: 8
  • Cresson Railroad Observation Platform: 6.9 mi
  • Engine House #6 Exhibit Building: 7.1 mi
  • Old Duncansville Airmail field: 11.2 mi
  • Tipton Creek Train Station: 14.2 mi
  • Theme Park Entrance: 14.3 mi
Cliffs: 6
Nature reserves: 6
Springs: 5
  • Gallitzin Spring: 7.9 mi
  • Arch Spring: 18.3 mi
  • Weynant Spring: 19.1 mi
  • Hundred Springs: 19.3 mi
  • Herder Spring: 22.0 mi
Picnic sites: 4
Artworks: 3
Ghost towns: 3
Gardens: 2
  • Garden: 14.4 mi
  • Seeds of Hope (Tyrone Community Gardens): 18.0 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Hinckston Falls: 22.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue KnobS 182°953 m18.7 mi
Schaefer HeadS 182°898 m16.4 mi
Ritchey KnobS 174°874 m14.9 mi
Cattle KnobS 179°865 m16.2 mi
Round TopSSW 195°849 m21.3 mi
Round KnobS 182°846 m17.4 mi
Pine KnobS 174°824 m15.8 mi
Vickrey MountainSSW 193°821 m16.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1918:5019:26
June solstice05:4420:0820:49
September equinox07:0218:3719:13
December solstice07:3516:0716:51

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262937495967717063524131
Precip in2.92.73.53.84.44.24.23.94.33.83.63.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Altoona 3 W, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/9523225721

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