The Clinton 12 – Walking into History
The Clinton 12 – Walking into History is a historic site in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 286 m. Cross Mountain stands 1,075 m to the northwest, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Green McAdoo Cultural Center, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Norris Freeway passes 6.5 miles off.
What the record says
- Built
- 2007
- Material
- bronze
How to reach it
- 6.5 mi off the Norris Freeway, National
- 14.2 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Overlooks nearby
- Norris Dam Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- College Hill: 0.4 mi
- Pilot Knob: 5.9 mi
- Grave Hill: 7.7 mi
- Round Mountain: 7.9 mi
- Pilot Mountain: 7.9 mi
- Clinton City Park: 0.5 mi
- Clinton-Jaycee Park: 1.3 mi
- South Clinton Park: 1.7 mi
- Lost Bottom Park: 3.3 mi
- Gibbs Ferry Park: 3.4 mi
- Magnet Mills: 0.5 mi
- Marlow Elementary School Cafeteria: 6.2 mi
- Village of Brothers: 7.3 mi
- Itinerant Miners' Cemetery: 7.3 mi
- Fraterville Disaster: 7.3 mi
- Green McAdoo Cultural Center: 0.0 mi
- Museum of Appalachia: 6.8 mi
- Norris Museum: 7.6 mi
- Coal Creek Miners Museum: 8.2 mi
- Lenoir Museum: 8.5 mi
- River Ridge: 5.3 mi
- Longmire Bluff: 10.3 mi
- Hewitt Bluff: 11.8 mi
- Bull Bluff: 12.1 mi
- Stubbs Bluff: 14.4 mi
- Baxter Gardens: 12.7 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 14.1 mi
- Cresent Bend Garden: 15.0 mi
- Grow Lab: 15.4 mi
- Beall Family Rose Garden: 15.7 mi
- Loyston Point Recreation Area: 15.0 mi
- Baker Creek Preserve: 18.1 mi
- Ijams Nature Center: 18.3 mi
- Marie Myers Park: 18.5 mi
- Grayson Subaru Nature Preserve: 18.6 mi
- Herron Spring: 14.8 mi
- Massengil Spring: 16.4 mi
- Love's Creek Spring: 16.6 mi
- Ebb and Flow Spring: 20.9 mi
- Hardin Spring: 21.0 mi
- Aspire: 1.1 mi
- Norris Dam Visitor Center: 9.0 mi
- Abandoned Train: 13.9 mi
- Knox Selfie Lab: 15.3 mi
- Ramsey House Plantation: 20.0 mi
- Loyston: 15.5 mi
- Fork Mountain: 15.7 mi
- Wheat: 17.4 mi
- Torchbearer Statue: 15.7 mi
- Pat Summitt Statue: 15.9 mi
- Alex Haley Statue: 16.0 mi
- Emory Gap Falls: 18.7 mi
- Debord Falls: 19.1 mi
- Boyd Hollow Falls: 20.9 mi
- Saratoga Pavillion: 17.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.2 miles of The Clinton 12 – Walking into History. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross Mountain | NW 323° | 1,075 m | 8.3 mi |
| The Flag Pole | NW 323° | 1,075 m | 8.3 mi |
| Redoak Mountain | NW 312° | 1,027 m | 8.4 mi |
| Big Fodderstack | W 271° | 1,013 m | 15.4 mi |
| Buffalo Mountain | WNW 293° | 1,008 m | 10.3 mi |
| Hurricane Mountain | NNW 329° | 1,007 m | 14.3 mi |
| Pilot Mountain | WNW 293° | 993 m | 7.9 mi |
| Burge Mountain | WNW 290° | 993 m | 15.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:15 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 20:19 | 20:58 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 16:47 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 43 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 76 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 49 | 42 |
| Precip in | 5.1 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 5.5 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 4.6 | 5.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — OAK Ridge Asos, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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