Fort Colorado Historical Marker
Fort Colorado Historical Marker is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 169 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Site of Fort Colorado, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 8.2 miles off. 35 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Inscription
- Site of Fort Colorado (Coleman's Fort) 1836-1838
How to reach it
- 8.2 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 18.4 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 21.7 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 24 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Norman School Park: 0.6 mi
- Astor Place Greenbelt: 0.8 mi
- Springdale Park: 0.8 mi
- Fort Branch Creek Greenbelt: 0.9 mi
- Little Walnut Creek Greenbelt: 1.0 mi
- Arachnophilia: 1.5 mi
- Ocho: 1.5 mi
- Pollen Grain: 1.8 mi
- Wigwam: 1.8 mi
- The Giant Rooster: 1.9 mi
- Site of Fort Colorado: 0.0 mi
- First Colored Baptist Church: 0.4 mi
- Bethany Cemetery: 0.8 mi
- Site of Pecan Springs School: 1.1 mi
- Evergreen Cemetery: 1.6 mi
- Monoculture: 1.8 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 1.8 mi
- Windsor Park Community Garden: 2.0 mi
- SFC Teaching Garden: 2.1 mi
- Patterson Park Community Garden: 2.1 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 1.3 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.0 mi
- Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve: 4.2 mi
- Hornsby Bend Ecological Research Area: 4.4 mi
- The Thinkery: 2.0 mi
- George Washington Carver Museum: 3.2 mi
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum: 3.3 mi
- Texas State Cemetery Visitor Center: 3.4 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 3.4 mi
- Hergotz Hill: 3.8 mi
- Bald Knob: 6.0 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 6.4 mi
- Mount Barker: 6.4 mi
- Mount Lucas: 6.6 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 3.6 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 3.7 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 4.6 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 4.7 mi
- Armor and Artillery Row: 5.5 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 7.4 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 7.7 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 8.6 mi
- Twin Falls: 8.7 mi
- Hidden Falls: 8.8 mi
- New Sweden: 12.8 mi
- McDuff: 13.3 mi
- Palm Valley: 18.0 mi
- Goforth: 19.6 mi
- Lytton Springs: 19.8 mi
- Seiders Spring: 4.5 mi
- Eliza Spring: 5.9 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 5.9 mi
- Shady Spring: 7.7 mi
- Queen's Bath: 16.0 mi
- Bird Bluff: 3.2 mi
- Seismic Wall: 8.0 mi
- Fern Bluff: 16.7 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 24.8 mi
- Stone picnic table: 7.3 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 9.0 mi
- The Learning Tree: 11.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fort Colorado Historical Marker. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 272° | 433 m | 24.6 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 254° | 406 m | 24.8 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 271° | 364 m | 18.9 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | W 279° | 360 m | 18.2 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 248° | 353 m | 18.0 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 316° | 346 m | 24.7 mi |
| Hamilton Hill | NW 322° | 345 m | 24.9 mi |
| Jess Maynard Hill | NW 323° | 343 m | 23.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 20:01 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:35 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 53 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 78 | 68 | 59 | 51 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin 6S, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/6379191665
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- Austin · 4 mi
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