Rural Farms and Communities Before Camp Swift
Rural Farms and Communities Before Camp Swift is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 140 m. Yegua Benchmark stands 232 m to the northeast, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Dunstan, a ghost town 3.8 miles away. Texas Brazos Trail passes 4.6 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 2007
- Material
- aluminium
What to expect
- Operated by
- Texas Historical Commission
How to reach it
- 4.6 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 8.9 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
- 28.9 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- John Herron: 4.0 mi
- McDade: 5.4 mi
- Three Oaks (Goerlitz) Cemetery: 5.6 mi
- Rock Front Saloon, 1870: 5.8 mi
- McDade Baptist Church: 5.9 mi
- Lake Bastrop North Shore Park: 5.4 mi
- Lake Bastrop Lands: 5.9 mi
- Lake Bastrop South Shore Park: 7.1 mi
- Goins Picnic Area: 7.2 mi
- Thomas Memorial Park: 7.7 mi
- Ms. Pearl the Giant Squirrel Statue: 12.5 mi
- Fork in the Road: 18.1 mi
- The Giant Rooster: 21.1 mi
- Lotus: 22.7 mi
- Reach for Your Dreams: 22.8 mi
- Elgin Depot Museum: 8.2 mi
- Museum of the Bastrop County Historical Society: 8.9 mi
- Coupland Depot Museum: 15.9 mi
- Smithville Railroad Historical Park and Museum: 17.4 mi
- Rockne Museum: 17.9 mi
- Bastrop Community Garden: 8.7 mi
- Memorial Grove: 9.2 mi
- Native Texas Plants Garden: 22.3 mi
- Fort Dessau Community Garden: 22.5 mi
- Windsor Park Community Garden: 22.7 mi
- Lotman Hill: 7.2 mi
- Yegua Knobbs: 10.0 mi
- Yegua Benchmark: 10.5 mi
- Caldwell Knob: 10.7 mi
- Clay Hill: 16.4 mi
- Dunstan: 3.8 mi
- Phelan: 5.5 mi
- Yewpon: 8.4 mi
- McDuff: 8.6 mi
- Grassyville: 15.9 mi
- Indiangrass Wildlife Sanctuary: 17.3 mi
- Decker Tallgrass Prairie Preserve: 17.4 mi
- Onion Creek Wildlife Sanctuary: 17.9 mi
- Hornsby Bend Ecological Research Area: 19.8 mi
- Big Walnut Creek Nature Preserve: 20.7 mi
- CCC Water Fountain: 9.5 mi
- Abandoned zoo cage: 24.3 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 24.7 mi
- Red Bluffs: 11.6 mi
- Bird Bluff: 22.6 mi
- Lower McKinney Falls: 24.3 mi
- Upper McKinney Falls: 24.5 mi
- Stone picnic table: 24.1 mi
- Shady Spring: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Rural Farms and Communities Before Camp Swift. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yegua Benchmark | NE 46° | 232 m | 10.5 mi |
| Yegua Knobbs | NE 49° | 225 m | 10.0 mi |
| Flag Hill | SSW 194° | 221 m | 23.4 mi |
| Pilot Knob | WSW 257° | 217 m | 23.9 mi |
| Jaecks Hill | NW 323° | 214 m | 22.8 mi |
| Bald Knob | WNW 293° | 205 m | 17.6 mi |
| Lotman Hill | SSE 150° | 201 m | 7.2 mi |
| Caldwell Knob | WSW 237° | 177 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:09 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:29 | 20:00 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:56 | 19:27 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:58 | 17:34 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 50 | 54 | 60 | 68 | 75 | 82 | 84 | 85 | 79 | 70 | 59 | 52 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 2.7 | 4.9 | 3.0 | 2.0 | 2.3 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 3.1 | 3.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elgin 1 N, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/12395089083
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