The Dixie Overland Highway - The Jim Hogg Highway
The Dixie Overland Highway - The Jim Hogg Highway is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 127 m. Stivers Hill stands 194 m to the northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is First National Bank Building, a historic site 0.1 miles away. Texas Forest Trail runs past it. 141 named places lie within 25 miles, 8 of them named summits.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Mineola Historic Preservation Foundation
How to reach it
- On the Texas Forest Trail
- 22.7 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
141 named places within 25 miles
- First National Bank Building: 0.1 mi
- Site of Public Mineral Water Well: 0.1 mi
- Mineola Post Office: 0.1 mi
- Site of the Coleman Family Drug Store and Clinic: 0.1 mi
- Saloons in Mineola: 0.1 mi
- 1888 Plaza: 0.1 mi
- Peterson Park: 0.1 mi
- Iron Horse Square: 0.2 mi
- Meredith Memorial Field: 0.5 mi
- Mineola Civic Center and RV Park: 0.9 mi
- Mineola Historical Museum: 0.1 mi
- Historic Mineola Depot and Railroad Museum: 0.1 mi
- Stinson Home - Honeymoon Cottage Museum: 9.1 mi
- Wood County History Museum: 9.4 mi
- Van Area Oil and Historical Museum: 13.7 mi
- Greer Hill: 3.7 mi
- Mount Sinai: 10.8 mi
- Todd Mountain: 15.9 mi
- Murphy Mountain: 20.9 mi
- Red Hill: 22.4 mi
- Corinth: 14.5 mi
- Clower: 14.6 mi
- Utica: 16.3 mi
- Belzora: 17.9 mi
- Ben Wheeler: 19.6 mi
- Quitman Arboretum & Botanical Gardens: 9.0 mi
- Serenity Garden: 17.4 mi
- Tyler Rose Garden: 24.0 mi
- Van Zandt County Westbound Rest Area: 15.4 mi
- Van Zandt County Eastbound Rest Area: 15.5 mi
- Martin Bluff: 21.0 mi
- Sartin Bluff: 23.8 mi
- CCC Rock Dam: 16.6 mi
- Tree of Life: 18.5 mi
- Canton Artestian Well: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Dixie Overland Highway - The Jim Hogg Highway. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stivers Hill | NE 41° | 194 m | 22.9 mi |
| Todd Mountain | SE 135° | 185 m | 15.9 mi |
| Red Hill | WSW 250° | 171 m | 22.4 mi |
| Pinnacle Mountain | E 97° | 170 m | 24.0 mi |
| Mount Sinai | S 177° | 166 m | 10.8 mi |
| Peter Hayes Hill | E 91° | 137 m | 22.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
The recorded facing catches the sunrise.
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:27 | 19:01 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 19:57 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 07:11 | 18:48 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 16:43 | 17:21 |
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 | 45 | 49 | 56 | 63 | 71 | 79 | 82 | 82 | 75 | 65 | 55 | 47 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 3.7 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 5.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/5158559636
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