Fort Terry
Fort Terry is a historic site in New York, at a modelled elevation of 9 m. Pond Hill stands 103 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Orient Point County Park, a park 3.3 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 3.4 miles off.
The story
Fort Terry was a coastal fortification on Plum Island, a small island just off Orient Point, New York, United States. This strategic position afforded it a commanding view over the Atlantic entrance to the commercially vital Long Island Sound. It was established in 1897 and used intermittently through the end of World War II. In 1952, it became a military animal and biological warfare (BW) research facility, moving to civilian control in 1954 as the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Despite the new civilian control, the biological warfare mission continued until 1969, when the US officially ended offensive BW research. The island is now being considered for sale or conversion to a wildlife refuge. Fort Terry was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
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Dates from 1897.
Wikidata Q5472172, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
- 3.4 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 24.2 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 11 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Orient Point County Park: 3.3 mi
- Orient Beach State Park: 5.2 mi
- Captain Kid Monument: 6.8 mi
- Seaside State Park: 8.7 mi
- Old Schoolhouse Park: 8.7 mi
- Browns Hills: 5.9 mi
- Whale Hill: 7.8 mi
- Baptist Hill: 9.5 mi
- Mount Ararat: 9.7 mi
- Lamphere Hill: 9.8 mi
- Town Open Space (Great Wight Way): 7.3 mi
- Oyster Ponds Waterway Access Site: 7.5 mi
- Two Tree Island: 7.9 mi
- Town Open Space (Old Black Point Road): 8.1 mi
- Ruth Oliva Preserve at Dam Pond: 8.4 mi
- Niantic Children’s Museum: 9.6 mi
- East End Seaport Maritime Museum: 10.8 mi
- Long Island Train Museum: 10.9 mi
- Pollock-Krasner House: 11.2 mi
- Nut Museum: 11.7 mi
- Orient Beach: 5.6 mi
- Long Beach: 6.8 mi
- Truman's Beach: 7.4 mi
- Giants Neck Beach: 8.2 mi
- Soundview Beach: 8.3 mi
- Fort Michie: 4.0 mi
- Battery Barlow (historical): 9.3 mi
- Battery Hamilton (historical): 9.3 mi
- Battery Butterfield (historical): 9.3 mi
- Battery Hoffman (historical): 9.4 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 11.0 mi
- Stonehenge Replica: 11.3 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 12.8 mi
- Big Bird: 14.4 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 16.2 mi
- Slaves Burying Ground: 6.6 mi
- watchtower: 10.7 mi
- The Whale: 12.7 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 17.4 mi
- Amsterdam Beach Trail: 17.5 mi
- Rock Garden: 9.0 mi
- West Garden: 9.0 mi
- East Garden: 9.0 mi
- Cutting Garden: 9.1 mi
- Wildflower Garden: 13.9 mi
- Crow Head: 6.2 mi
- Ram Head: 8.8 mi
- Hedges Bank: 10.0 mi
- Acabonack Cliff: 12.1 mi
- Jumping-off Hill: 15.3 mi
- Silver Falls: 15.9 mi
- Chapman Falls: 22.2 mi
- Clark Creek Falls: 23.2 mi
- Succor Brook Falls: 23.5 mi
- Yantic Falls: 24.7 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 9.7 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 19.0 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 19.0 mi
- Oil Shed: 19.0 mi
- Powder House: 11.9 mi
- Skate Hut: 12.3 mi
- Veterans Memorial Picnic Area: 22.9 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 14.6 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 20.3 mi
- Old Spring: 19.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of Fort Terry. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pond Hill | NNW 347° | 103 m | 12.9 mi |
| Great Hill | N 8° | 99 m | 14.9 mi |
| Douglas Hill | N 4° | 93 m | 14.1 mi |
| Latimer Hill | N 10° | 92 m | 14.9 mi |
| Smith Hill | N 349° | 89 m | 14.3 mi |
| Haines Hill | N 1° | 88 m | 14.7 mi |
| Pumphouse Hill | NNW 342° | 86 m | 13.4 mi |
| Lord Hill | NW 326° | 83 m | 14.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 15:39 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orient PT SP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/5774408710
Day trips start here
- Old Lyme · 11 mi
- East Lyme · 12 mi
- Waterford · 12 mi
- New London · 13 mi
- Old Saybrook · 13 mi
- Groton · 14 mi
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