Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial
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Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial is a historic site in California, at a recorded elevation of 111 m. Strawberry Peak stands 1,879 m to the north-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Fort Moore Memorial, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110 passes 0.5 miles off.
The story
Fort Moore was a U.S. Military fortification built on Fort Hill (now called Fort Moore Hill) overlooking Los Angeles, California. The fort was constructed soon after the conquest of California in 1847, towards the end of the Mexican–American War. Pueblo de Los Ángeles was first occupied by U.S. troops in August 1846, however the troops were forced out during the Siege of Los Angeles. In the course of the siege, American troops had climbed to the top of the hill where they erected a temporary barricade before being ejected from the city. When American troops again took Los Angeles in January 1847, they began construction of a fort at the site of the hill-top barricade. Known as the Post at Los Angeles, work on the fort was not completed before military leadership decided to replace the unfinished fort with the larger Fort Moore. Thus, Fort Moore became the second fort and third fortification to be built on Fort Moore Hill. The fort was decommissioned within just a few years and the hill was divided up for different uses. Over the decades, the city’s first non-Catholic cemetery was established on the hill, many of Los Angeles’ elite built their mansions near its crest, and the local school district constructed various school buildings atop the hill. In 1949, much of the hill was removed during construction of the Hollywood Freeway. In 1958, the Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial was completed to memorialize the fort and pioneers. Today, the Ramón C. Cortines School of Visual and Performing Arts is a significant institution on what remains of the hill.
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Dates from 1847.
Wikidata Q5471706, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 111 m
How to reach it
- 0.5 mi off the Arroyo Seco Historic Parkway - Route 110, National
Overlooks nearby
- Point Grandview · 2 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fort Moore Memorial: 0.1 mi
- Bracero Monument: 0.1 mi
- Embodied: 0.2 mi
- Felipe de Neve: 0.2 mi
- Carlos III: 0.2 mi
- LA Plaza De Culturas Y Artes: 0.2 mi
- América Tropical Interpretative Center: 0.2 mi
- Chinese American Museum: 0.2 mi
- Sepulveda House Museum: 0.2 mi
- Plaza Fire House: 0.2 mi
- Ord and Yale Street Park: 0.2 mi
- Placita de Dolores: 0.3 mi
- Yaanga park: 0.3 mi
- Gloria Molina Grand Park: 0.3 mi
- Los Angeles City Hall Park: 0.4 mi
- Flat Point Park: 2.8 mi
- Silverlake peak: 2.9 mi
- Maltman peak: 2.9 mi
- Micheltorena peak: 3.0 mi
- Ronda Vista: 3.6 mi
- Chinatown Gateway: 0.1 mi
- Los Pobladores: 0.2 mi
- Los Angeles Plaza: 0.2 mi
- George Washington statue: 0.3 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 0.3 mi
- Flag Garden: 0.3 mi
- Blue Ribbon Garden: 0.3 mi
- Fredric Roberts Garden: 0.4 mi
- California Friendly® Demonstration Garden: 0.4 mi
- Solano Canyon Community Garden: 1.3 mi
- Cedar Grove: 4.9 mi
- Sycamore Glen: 5.1 mi
- Joe Klass Water Stop: 5.2 mi
- Crystal Springs Picnic Area: 5.5 mi
- Park Center: 5.7 mi
- El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument: 0.2 mi
- Thien Hau Temple: 0.3 mi
- Seven Star Cavern Wishing Well: 0.6 mi
- Angels Flight: 0.7 mi
- James Irvine Japanese Garden: 0.7 mi
- Elysian Park: 1.7 mi
- Ascot Hills Park: 3.2 mi
- Elyria Canyon Park: 3.3 mi
- Rose Hill Park: 3.4 mi
- Bird Sanctuary: 5.6 mi
- Mayberg Waterfall: 12.0 mi
- Eaton Canyon Waterfall: 12.5 mi
- Millard Falls: 12.5 mi
- Ribbon Rocks Falls: 12.6 mi
- Moss Grotto Falls: 12.6 mi
- Kuruvungna Springs: 12.4 mi
- Siutcanga Spring(LA River source): 16.3 mi
- Goldenrod Spring: 16.6 mi
- Fascination Spring: 16.8 mi
- Not Much of a Spring: 18.4 mi
- Mother's Beach: 13.4 mi
- El Segundo Beach: 14.7 mi
- Palisades Beach: 15.7 mi
- Will Rogers State Beach: 17.8 mi
- Redondo Beach State Park: 17.9 mi
- Upper Switzer Falls Grotto: 14.7 mi
- Porter Ranch Palisades: 23.5 mi
- San Pedro Escarpment: 24.1 mi
- Spa Palace: 1.6 mi
- Point Fermin Lighthouse: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.1 miles of Fort Moore Pioneer Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Strawberry Peak | NNE 24° | 1,879 m | 17.1 mi |
| San Gabriel Peak | NNE 33° | 1,878 m | 15.2 mi |
| Mount Disappointment | NNE 31° | 1,819 m | 15.2 mi |
| Mount Lawlor | NNE 28° | 1,807 m | 16.7 mi |
| Mount Deception | NNE 29° | 1,767 m | 15.1 mi |
| Mount Markham | NNE 33° | 1,746 m | 14.8 mi |
| Mount Wilson | NE 42° | 1,737 m | 15.4 mi |
| Occidental Peak | NE 37° | 1,736 m | 15.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:57 | 18:32 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:43 | 19:31 | 20:08 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:18 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 06:55 | 16:10 | 16:48 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 58 | 59 | 61 | 64 | 66 | 69 | 73 | 75 | 74 | 69 | 63 | 58 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.6 | 2.2 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — LOS Angeles Downtown/usc, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/906263932
Day trips start here
- Los Angeles · 0 mi
- Los Angeles/Downtown · 1 mi
- Los Angeles/Northwest · 2 mi
- Los Angeles/Eastside · 3 mi
- Huntington Park · 5 mi
- Los Angeles/South · 5 mi
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