The Umbrella Girl Fountain
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The Umbrella Girl Fountain is a historic site in Ohio, at a modelled elevation of 231 m. Beavers Hill stands 383 m to the east-northeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Umbrella Girl Statue, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic National Road - Ohio passes 1.0 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Umbrella Girl, or The Umbrella Girl Fountain, is a 1996 fountain and sculpture in Schiller Park's Grace Highfield Memorial Garden, in Columbus, Ohio's German Village neighborhood, in the United States. The copper fountain and sandstone pool were designed by Joan Wobst and Phil Kientz, respectively.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1996.
Wikidata Q58220961, matched on coordinates and name (6 m apart).
What the record says
- Inscription
- Umbrella Girl, or The Umbrella Girl Fountain, is a 1996 fountain and sculpture in Schiller Park's Grace Highfield Memorial Garden, in Columbus, Ohio's German Village neighborhood, in the United States.[1] The copper fountain and sandstone pool were design
How to reach it
- 1.0 mi off the Historic National Road - Ohio, National
- 8.8 mi off the Jefferson Township Scenic Byway
- 11.9 mi off the Scenic Olentangy Heritage Corridor
- 15.1 mi off the Big Darby Plains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Stag · 1 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Umbrella Girl Statue: 0.0 mi
- Miranova Place: 1.0 mi
- Columbus Art Memorial Company: 1.2 mi
- Hammer of Justice: 1.2 mi
- Southwest Cannon: 1.3 mi
- Statue of Friedrich Schiller: 0.1 mi
- The Ten Commandments and Beatitudes: 0.7 mi
- Ohio Holocaust And Liberators Memorial: 1.3 mi
- The State House: 1.3 mi
- The Underground Railroad: 1.4 mi
- Schiller Park: 0.1 mi
- Keller Park: 0.3 mi
- Moeller Park: 0.6 mi
- Frank Fetch Memorial Park: 0.6 mi
- Kobacher Park: 0.7 mi
- Audubon Society: 1.7 mi
- Willow Creek Preserve: 3.6 mi
- Tarpy's Woods: 4.2 mi
- Rocky Creek Parkland: 5.1 mi
- Three Creeks Metro Park: 5.2 mi
- George F. Schmidt Blumengarten: 0.3 mi
- Garden Railway: 2.6 mi
- Zen Terrace: 2.7 mi
- Bonsai Courtyard: 2.7 mi
- Franklin Park Conservatory: 2.7 mi
- Heritage Museum of Kappa Kappa Gamma: 1.3 mi
- COSI: 1.4 mi
- Kelton House Museum: 1.4 mi
- National Veterans Memorial and Museum: 1.5 mi
- Columbus Museum of Art: 1.5 mi
- Palm House: 2.7 mi
- Pacific Island Water Garden: 2.7 mi
- Dorothy M. Davis Showhouse: 2.7 mi
- Desert: 2.7 mi
- Tropical Rainforest: 2.7 mi
- Sandefur Wetland Pavilion: 5.5 mi
- Brevoort Park: 6.5 mi
- Picnic Area: 7.1 mi
- Ze Goat Picnic: 11.3 mi
- White Oak Grove Group Picnic Area: 11.9 mi
- Baker Hill: 2.8 mi
- Marlboro Hill: 3.3 mi
- Spangler Hill: 6.1 mi
- Beavers Hill: 18.6 mi
- Sand Hill: 22.8 mi
- Milliken Falls: 6.4 mi
- Indian Run Falls: 12.8 mi
- Indian Run Falls: 12.8 mi
- Hibernia: 7.7 mi
- Wonderland: 7.7 mi
- Carpenter's Mill: 20.2 mi
- Dublin Spring: 12.5 mi
- Hocking River ?: 16.2 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 24.8 mi
- Prairie Oaks Dog Beach: 14.4 mi
- Alum Creek Beach: 17.2 mi
- Lee M. Rizor Memorial Highway Rest Area: 19.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Umbrella Girl Fountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beavers Hill | ENE 59° | 383 m | 18.6 mi |
| Allen Knob | SE 134° | 344 m | 24.9 mi |
| Becks Knob | SE 133° | 339 m | 24.5 mi |
| Sand Hill | SE 144° | 332 m | 22.8 mi |
| Claypool Knob | SE 130° | 330 m | 24.5 mi |
| Spangler Hill | S 183° | 243 m | 6.1 mi |
| Baker Hill | SSE 152° | 241 m | 2.8 mi |
| Marlboro Hill | S 183° | 190 m | 3.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:08 | 19:44 |
| June solstice | 06:04 | 20:24 | 21:05 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:55 | 19:31 |
| December solstice | 07:51 | 16:28 | 17:11 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 32 | 41 | 52 | 63 | 72 | 75 | 73 | 67 | 55 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Columbus-valley Crossing, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/12106825936
Day trips start here
- Columbus · 1 mi
- Columbus/South · 1 mi
- Columbus/University Area · 4 mi
- London · 24 mi
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