USS San Francisco Memorial
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USS San Francisco Memorial is a historic site in California, at a recorded elevation of 59 m. Mount Tamalpais East Peak stands 784 m to the north-northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is The Naval Battle of Guadacanal, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
The USS San Francisco Memorial is a war memorial installed in San Francisco's Lands End, in the U.S. state of California. The memorial has a plaque commemorating the approximately 100 sailors and seven Marines who died aboard the cruiser USS San Francisco. The memorial is "oriented towards Guadalcanal" and consists of "a shell pocked section of USS San Francisco‘s bridge wings", which were removed, unrepaired, after the battle. "The site (sic) of heavy gauge steel perforated like paper captures the fury and horror of that night better than any sculpture ever could."
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q49573654, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1950-11-12
- Elevation
- 59 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sutro Baths: 0.2 mi
- Camera Obscura: 0.3 mi
- Dutch Windmill: 0.9 mi
- Murphy Windmill: 1.2 mi
- Anglers Lodge: 1.3 mi
- Diana: 0.3 mi
- The Thinker: 0.6 mi
- El Cid Campeador: 0.6 mi
- “Playland Revisited”, Ray Beldner 1996: 0.7 mi
- Pax Jerusalemme: 0.7 mi
- Sutro Heights Park: 0.3 mi
- Cabrillo Playground: 1.0 mi
- Rochambeau Playground: 1.5 mi
- Fulton Playground: 1.5 mi
- La Playa Park: 1.5 mi
- Rob Hill: 2.1 mi
- Strawberry Hill: 2.2 mi
- Heidelberg Hill: 2.5 mi
- Presidio Hill: 2.7 mi
- Grand View Hill: 2.8 mi
- Mile Rock Beach: 0.4 mi
- Marshall's Beach: 2.2 mi
- Black Sands Beach: 2.9 mi
- Rodeo Beach: 3.6 mi
- East Beach: 3.6 mi
- Fort Funston: 4.3 mi
- Cypress Ridge Open Space: 5.4 mi
- Aramburu Island: 7.4 mi
- Old Hilary's Botanical Preserve: 7.4 mi
- Richardson Bay Audubon Sanctuary: 7.5 mi
- Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden: 0.9 mi
- Argonne School Native Garden and Outdoor Classroom: 2.0 mi
- Argonne School Edible Garden and Outdoor Classroom: 2.0 mi
- Compton Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Children's Garden: 2.3 mi
- Udo & Jürgen's place: 1.4 mi
- Bicentennial Campground picnic area: 3.1 mi
- Picnic Pod A: 3.3 mi
- West Portal Playground Picnic Area: 3.8 mi
- Greg & Bev James Picnic Area: 5.1 mi
- Rainbow Falls: 2.0 mi
- Huntington Falls: 2.2 mi
- Grey Fox Creek Fountain: 6.8 mi
- Kent Falls: 7.9 mi
- Dawn Falls: 11.1 mi
- El Polín Spring: 3.1 mi
- Old Spring: 4.9 mi
- Lone Tree Spring: 9.4 mi
- Red Rock Spring: 9.8 mi
- Rock Springs: 10.4 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 4.3 mi
- Vent 5: 8.7 mi
- East Slope Badlands: 11.8 mi
- Aramai Point: 12.2 mi
- Rock Fort: 14.7 mi
- Winehaven: 12.7 mi
- Lynn: 15.3 mi
- Russell City: 22.5 mi
- Stokes Landing: 23.8 mi
- Point Bonita Lighthouse: 2.5 mi
- Quarters A: 8.3 mi
- Yerba Buena Island Lighthouse: 8.3 mi
- Bird Island Arch: 3.2 mi
- Temple: 21.0 mi
- Keyhole: 21.5 mi
- Steep Ravine Hot Spring: 9.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.8 miles of USS San Francisco Memorial. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Tamalpais East Peak | NNW 340° | 784 m | 10.7 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Peak | NNW 334° | 778 m | 10.8 mi |
| Mount Tamalpais West Point | NNW 334° | 527 m | 10.3 mi |
| Bare Knoll | NW 325° | 478 m | 10.1 mi |
| Wooded Knoll | NW 324° | 465 m | 10.0 mi |
| Cardiac Hill | NNW 328° | 413 m | 9.3 mi |
| San Bruno Mountain Summit | SSE 148° | 371 m | 7.8 mi |
| Richardson East | N 8° | 339 m | 4.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:14 | 18:48 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:57 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:59 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 16:14 | 16:55 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: year-round.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 54 | 54 | 55 | 55 | 57 | 58 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 57 | 53 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.0 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 2.2 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — SAN Francisco Oceanside, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358803480
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