Port Bolivar Iron Ore Railway Memorial Park
Port Bolivar Iron Ore Railway Memorial Park is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 91 m. Underwood Mountain stands 204 m to the west-southwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Colonel L.P. Featherstone Memorial statue, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Forest Trail passes 12 miles off. 23 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Inscription
- Celebrate important history to our great city
How to reach it
- 11.6 mi off the Texas Forest Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Jackson's Lookout · 14 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Ore City Local Park: 0.0 mi
- Martin Luther King Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
- Pine Hollow Park: 0.3 mi
- City Park: 0.5 mi
- Pine Hill Park: 3.4 mi
- Tarver's Ferry: 3.3 mi
- Old Coffeeville, C. S. A.: 3.6 mi
- Camp Talley: 3.6 mi
- Site of Old Spearman's Ferry: 7.7 mi
- Riley Cemetery: 8.3 mi
- Brown Mountain: 4.1 mi
- Camp Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Buzzard Roost Mountain: 6.2 mi
- Locks Mountain: 6.3 mi
- Holiday Hill: 7.1 mi
- Historic Upshur Museum: 14.0 mi
- Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum: 15.0 mi
- North East Texas Rural Heritage Museum, Farmsted: 20.0 mi
- Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum: 20.0 mi
- Longview Museum of Fine Arts: 21.0 mi
- Coffeeville: 3.2 mi
- Center Point: 13.2 mi
- Kelsey: 19.9 mi
- Corinth: 22.7 mi
- Port Jefferson History & Nature Center: 21.9 mi
- Garland P Ferguson Park: 22.0 mi
- Snavely Discovery Well: 22.6 mi
- Equipment Park: 22.9 mi
- Colonel L.P. Featherstone Memorial statue: 0.0 mi
- Served with Honor: 20.9 mi
- Sandy Beach: 12.4 mi
- Picnic Pavillion: 20.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Port Bolivar Iron Ore Railway Memorial Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Underwood Mountain | WSW 249° | 204 m | 16.5 mi |
| East Mountain | SW 214° | 200 m | 16.2 mi |
| Tidwell Mountain | SW 223° | 191 m | 15.8 mi |
| West Mountain | SW 222° | 191 m | 16.9 mi |
| Simpson Mountain | WSW 247° | 188 m | 12.7 mi |
| Camp Mountain | WSW 256° | 187 m | 4.7 mi |
| Howell Mountain | WNW 300° | 185 m | 11.0 mi |
| Gilmont Lookout | W 272° | 184 m | 9.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:58 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 06:12 | 19:54 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:45 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 16:40 | 17:17 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 50 | 58 | 65 | 73 | 80 | 83 | 83 | 77 | 66 | 55 | 48 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 5.6 | 4.3 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 3.8 | 4.8 | 4.0 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Diana 2 W, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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