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View Point Cemetery

View Point Cemetery from directly overhead

View Point Cemetery is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 863 m. Indian Hill stands 790 m to the east-northeast, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Booker, a historic site 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 90 miles off. 43 named places lie within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Built: 2005
Material: aluminium

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Texas Historical Commission

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates36.45478, -100.53401

90.0 mi off the Historic Route 66, National

Around it

43 named places within 25 miles

Historic sites28

Parks9

Deutsches Gardens: 11.6 mi
Darrouzett School Park: 11.7 mi
Darrouzett City Park: 12.3 mi
Murphy Park: 15.2 mi
Whigham Park: 15.6 mi

Museums3

Museum of the Plains: 15.2 mi
Wolf Creek Heritage Museum: 21.0 mi
Jones and Plummer Trail Museum: 24.4 mi

Cliffs1

Bean Pott Cliff: 4.8 mi

Peaks1

Indian Hill: 16.5 mi

Nature reserves1

Gene Howe Wildlife Management Area - W. A. (Pat) Murphy Unit: 24.4 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of View Point Cemetery. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Indian Hill	ENE 79°	790 m	16.5 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:47	19:20	19:54
June solstice	06:25	20:26	21:04
September equinox	07:31	19:07	19:41
December solstice	07:51	16:51	17:31

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	37	40	49	58	67	78	82	80	73	60	48	38
Precip in	0.7	0.6	1.5	1.9	2.8	3.2	3.5	3.0	1.9	2.0	0.8	1.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Perryton, 17 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element node/12438067936

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