General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument
General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument is a historic site in Kentucky, at a modelled elevation of 332 m. Green River Knob stands 531 m to the northwest, 8.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Zollicoffer Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Cumberland Cultural Heritage Highway runs past it.
The story
The General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Nancy, Kentucky, commemorates the death of Confederate General Felix K. Zollicoffer, who died here at the Battle of Mill Springs. A native of nearby Tennessee, he fought for the Confederacy. Zollicoffer was killed due to not realizing he was approaching Union lines instead of the Confederate line. The monument was placed in 1910 by Bennett H. Young, who rode with Confederate general John Hunt Morgan. Each Memorial Day a young girl from Nancy named Dorotha Burton decorated a white oak tree in Zollicoffer's honor. This was the inspiration for placing the monument only a few feet away from the tree. In the 1990s the tree was destroyed by lightning, but a sapling from that tree was put in its place, and is also called the Zollicoffer tree. The monument is an 8 feet (2.4 m) tall obelisk made of roughly hewed limestone. The description mentions not only Zollicoffer, but the other Confederates who died during the Battle of Mill Springs. On July 17, 1997, the General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Only a few feet away is another of the so-honored monuments: the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset. The other monument on the list in Pulaski County is the Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument north of Somerset, Kentucky.
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Dates from 1910.
Wikidata Q1501591, matched on coordinates and name (21 m apart).
What to expect
- Access
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Potato Knoll: 3.6 mi
- Rainwater Knob: 4.8 mi
- Harrison Knob: 4.9 mi
- Wait Knob: 5.3 mi
- Denham Knob: 5.4 mi
- Zollicoffer Park: 0.0 mi
- Pulaski County Park: 2.5 mi
- Public Boat Launch with Parking: 3.6 mi
- Firebrook Community Park: 4.6 mi
- Trinity Park: 7.3 mi
- Shinbone Cliff: 9.5 mi
- Washing Cliff: 17.1 mi
- Sand Cliff: 17.1 mi
- Tabletop Cliff: 17.4 mi
- Betts Cliff: 17.7 mi
- Meadow Creek Falls: 8.6 mi
- Lily Bend Falls: 17.1 mi
- Little Lily Creek Falls: 17.3 mi
- Lower Lily Creek Falls: 17.4 mi
- Upper Lily Creek Falls: 17.4 mi
- Confederate Mass Grave Monument: 0.0 mi
- Town Spring: 7.7 mi
- P.O.W. M.I.A. Memorial: 7.8 mi
- Burnside: 8.6 mi
- First Boy Scout Troop: 8.9 mi
- Downtown Somerset Welcome: 7.6 mi
- Tank: 7.8 mi
- Short Creek Cave: 18.2 mi
- Short Creek: 18.2 mi
- The Ritner Swinging Bridge: 19.3 mi
- Chimney Arch: 18.9 mi
- Natural Arch: 19.2 mi
- Nathan McClure Arch: 22.1 mi
- Nathan McClure Arch 2: 22.2 mi
- Yahoo Arch: 23.6 mi
- Lake Cumberland Slaves Memorial: 6.8 mi
- Senator John Sherman Cooper: 7.8 mi
- American Flag Mural: 19.2 mi
- Buck Creek Wildlife Management Area: 18.3 mi
- Ping-Sinking Valley Wildlife Management Area: 21.8 mi
- Mill Spring: 8.7 mi
- Stop: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.0 miles of General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green River Knob | NW 319° | 531 m | 8.9 mi |
| Dye Knob | NNW 329° | 466 m | 9.0 mi |
| Cedar Knob | N 359° | 466 m | 10.3 mi |
| Spaw Knob | NNW 336° | 440 m | 11.2 mi |
| Bethel Knob | N 355° | 440 m | 11.8 mi |
| Tarter Knob | NNW 333° | 433 m | 9.8 mi |
| Sugar Hill Knob | ENE 63° | 428 m | 11.5 mi |
| Clebitt Hill | S 189° | 424 m | 11.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:17 | 19:51 |
| June solstice | 06:20 | 20:24 | 21:03 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:03 | 19:38 |
| December solstice | 07:49 | 16:46 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 41 | 49 | 59 | 67 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 4.3 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.8 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Somerset 2 N, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/8365281801
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