The Gault Homestead
The Gault Homestead is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 248 m. Negrohead stands 405 m to the west-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Katherine Fleischer Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 7.2 miles off. 35 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 1990
- Material
- aluminium
What to expect
- Operated by
- Texas Historical Commission
How to reach it
- 7.2 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 16.5 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 29.2 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Katherine Fleischer Park: 0.0 mi
- Mills Pond: 0.6 mi
- Vista Park: 0.8 mi
- Willow Bend Park: 0.9 mi
- Sarah's Creek HOA Park: 1.3 mi
- War Memorial: 1.1 mi
- Merrilltown Cemetery: 1.2 mi
- Bratton Cemetery: 2.6 mi
- Waters Park: 2.6 mi
- St. Stephen's Missionary Baptist Church: 2.7 mi
- Lamplight Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Fort Dessau Community Garden: 3.3 mi
- Native Texas Plants Garden: 3.7 mi
- Unity Park Community Garden: 4.3 mi
- Xeriscape Garden: 5.0 mi
- Two lion statues: 6.0 mi
- Giraffe statue: 6.0 mi
- Herd of elephant statues: 6.0 mi
- Kalahari Resort sign: 6.0 mi
- Termite mound sculpture: 6.1 mi
- Beck Preserve: 4.7 mi
- Bull Creek Management Unit: 6.7 mi
- Waste Management Wildlife Park: 6.9 mi
- Stillhouse Hollow Nature Preserve: 7.0 mi
- Barrow Nature Preserve: 7.2 mi
- Museum of Ice Cream: 3.9 mi
- Museum of Illusions: 4.2 mi
- Bohls House: 4.3 mi
- Palm House Museum: 4.6 mi
- Elisabet Ney Museum: 9.8 mi
- Martin Hill: 1.8 mi
- Cat Mountain: 8.6 mi
- Jaecks Hill: 8.7 mi
- Bald Knob: 9.0 mi
- Shepherd Mountain: 9.3 mi
- Abandoned zoo cage: 2.8 mi
- Client Innovation Center: 3.5 mi
- Austin Table Tennis Association: 5.7 mi
- Armor and Artillery Row: 10.2 mi
- Inner Space Cavern: 11.5 mi
- Hidden Falls: 7.1 mi
- Link Falls: 7.4 mi
- Middle Bull Creek Falls: 8.0 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 8.2 mi
- Small Falls: 12.2 mi
- Shady Spring: 3.1 mi
- Queen's Bath: 10.1 mi
- Seiders Spring: 10.3 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 12.7 mi
- Eliza Spring: 13.4 mi
- Fern Bluff: 6.3 mi
- Bird Bluff: 13.7 mi
- Seismic Wall: 15.4 mi
- Comanche Bluff: 21.5 mi
- Palm Valley: 7.8 mi
- New Sweden: 10.2 mi
- McDuff: 19.8 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 17.5 mi
- Stone picnic table: 17.7 mi
- The Learning Tree: 18.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Gault Homestead. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Negrohead | WNW 289° | 405 m | 23.8 mi |
| Travis Peak | WNW 287° | 382 m | 21.8 mi |
| Big Bear Hill | WNW 300° | 366 m | 21.0 mi |
| Chalk Knob | WSW 241° | 364 m | 21.3 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | WSW 246° | 360 m | 19.3 mi |
| Barnett Knob | NNW 333° | 351 m | 24.8 mi |
| Tucker Knob | NNW 335° | 350 m | 24.0 mi |
| Polecat Knob | WNW 293° | 346 m | 18.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 20:01 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:35 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 49 | 53 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 81 | 84 | 84 | 78 | 69 | 58 | 50 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 4.6 | 2.8 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin Great Hills, 6 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/12453752268
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- Austin · 13 mi
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