Historic site · California

Indian Mounds

Indian Mounds from directly overhead

Indian Mounds is a historic site in California, at a modelled elevation of 5 m. Mount Bielawski stands 985 m to the south, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Poetry Wall, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away.

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What the record says

Material: metal

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Coordinates37.43418, -122.13077

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Hoover Park: 0.3 mi
Jerry Bowden Park: 0.6 mi
Henry W. Seale Park: 0.7 mi
Greer Park: 0.9 mi
Rinconada Park: 0.9 mi

Museums

Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo: 1.0 mi
Palo Alto History Museum: 1.6 mi
Museum of American Heritage: 1.6 mi
The Foster Museum: 1.9 mi
Hoover Tower: 2.0 mi

Attractions

Hewlett Packard's Garage: 1.4 mi
Environmental Volunteers EcoCenter: 2.0 mi
Tower Well structure (historic): 2.2 mi
El Palo Alto (city’s namesake redwood tree): 2.3 mi
Significant Events in Cell Biology walkway: 2.5 mi

Peaks

Coyote Hill: 2.7 mi
Sand Hill: 5.0 mi
Vista Hill: 5.5 mi
Madera Point: 5.6 mi
Elephant Mountain: 6.0 mi

Nature reserves

Stevens Creek Shoreline Nature Study Area Open Space Preserve: 3.6 mi
Redwood Grove Nature Preserve: 4.3 mi
Juan Prado Mesa Preserve: 5.8 mi
Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve: 6.0 mi
Hidden Villa: 6.6 mi

Historic sites

Rafael Soto Home Site: 0.3 mi
Nikola Tesla: 0.8 mi
Uncle Jim’s Cabin: 1.0 mi
Mayfield Farm, Homesite of Sarah Wallis: 1.3 mi
Professorville: 1.3 mi

Artworks58

Poetry Wall: 0.0 mi
Bloom: 0.8 mi
Sun Flowers: 1.0 mi
Aeolis 10: 1.0 mi
Push: 1.2 mi

Gardens58

El Carmelo School Native Habitat Garden: 0.6 mi
S.T.A. Parish Pastoral Garden: 0.7 mi
Rinconada Garden: 0.9 mi
Elizabeth Gamble Gardens: 1.1 mi
Ventura Garden: 1.2 mi

Picnic sites55

Beaches44

Niles beach: 12.1 mi
Coyote Point Beach: 15.1 mi
Aardvark Beach: 15.4 mi
Tunitas Beach: 15.8 mi
Martins Beach: 15.8 mi

Ghost towns14

Drawbridge: 8.8 mi
Stokes Landing: 11.1 mi
Russell City: 15.1 mi
Purissima: 15.9 mi
Lexington: 18.2 mi

Waterfalls13

Peter's Creek Falls: 10.2 mi
Gerow's Waterfall: 11.1 mi
Tip Toe Falls: 13.7 mi
Castle Rock Falls: 14.4 mi
Butano Falls: 16.7 mi

Springs10

Spring source: 8.5 mi
Summit Spring: 9.7 mi
Travertine Springs: 13.5 mi
Congress Springs: 13.7 mi
McClure Spring: 14.7 mi

Cliffs7

Graffiti Rock: 11.3 mi
Lyme Disease Rock: 14.5 mi
Underworld Rock: 14.5 mi
Chab: 20.5 mi
The Bluff: 20.9 mi

Rest areas1

Crystal Springs Safety Roadside Rest Area: 14.7 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.0 miles of Indian Mounds. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Mount Bielawski	S 172°	985 m	14.7 mi
Castle Rock	S 172°	979 m	14.3 mi
The Peak	SSE 168°	917 m	15.2 mi
Lookout Tower	S 175°	892 m	13.0 mi
Goat Rock	S 175°	890 m	14.3 mi
Sunnyvale Mountain	SSE 167°	880 m	15.5 mi
Summit Rock	S 173°	878 m	13.5 mi
Varian Peak	S 177°	873 m	14.1 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:13	18:46	19:21
June solstice	05:49	19:55	20:33
September equinox	06:57	18:33	19:07
December solstice	07:20	16:14	16:55

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	48	51	55	57	61	66	68	67	66	61	53	48
Precip in	2.9	3.2	2.2	1.0	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.1	0.6	1.6	2.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Palo Alto, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/11459800447

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