Allen County Museum
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Allen County Museum is a museum in Ohio, at a modelled elevation of 270 m. Anstine Hill stands 337 m to the southeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is The Children’s Garden, a garden 0.1 miles away. Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway runs past it. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Allen County Museum is located in the city of Lima, the county seat of Allen County, Ohio, United States. Occupying a half city block, the museum campus includes the main museum building, a log house, the MacDonell House (a Victorian mansion), a Shay Locomotive display, the Children's Discovery Center, genealogy and local history library, railroad archives, and the Children's Garden. The museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. According to recent reports of the American Alliance of Museums Accreditation Department, less than 800 museums, out of more than 11,000 in the United States, are accredited. Standards for accreditation apply across the board to both small and large institutions.
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Wikidata Q111318139, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- On the Ohio Lincoln Highway Historic Byway
- 11.5 mi off the Miami & Erie Canal Scenic Byway
- 19.3 mi off the Old Mill Stream Scenic Byway
- 25.0 mi off the Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches Scenic Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- Industry Park: 0.6 mi
- Faurot Park: 0.7 mi
- Hoover Park: 0.9 mi
- Collett Street Park: 0.9 mi
- Baxter Park: 1.1 mi
- White Feather's Town: 10.9 mi
- St. Anthony's Cemetery marker: 12.5 mi
- Christ on the Cross: 12.5 mi
- Presbyterian Church Bell: 12.7 mi
- Ten commandments monument: 12.7 mi
- Bird Bath: 2.4 mi
- The Mystery Stone: 10.9 mi
- Temple of Tolerance Rock Garden: 12.4 mi
- St. Anthony statue: 12.8 mi
- St. Anthony garden statue: 12.8 mi
- Lafayette-Jackson Historical Society: 8.7 mi
- Armstrong Air and Space Museum: 12.6 mi
- Wapakoneta Historical Museum: 12.6 mi
- Clymer Wildlife Museum: 12.7 mi
- Auglaize County Historical: 20.0 mi
- Ferald Ritchie Nature Preserve: 11.8 mi
- Auglaize Fish & Game Association: 13.3 mi
- Bluffton Nature Preserve: 15.6 mi
- Dr. Elizabeth Yahl Kuffner Nature Preserve: 18.2 mi
- Gross Woods Nature Preserve: 18.9 mi
- The Children’s Garden: 0.1 mi
- Swiss Homestead Culinary and Medicinal Garden: 14.4 mi
- Lynch Memorial Gardens: 19.2 mi
- Grand Lake St. Marys East Bank Park: 21.0 mi
- Nickel Plate 779: 1.3 mi
- Haunted Town Hall: 8.8 mi
- Suter's Produce Corn Maze: 15.1 mi
- Auglaize Interstate 75 SB: 10.0 mi
- Auglaize Interstate 75 NB: 10.0 mi
- Mount Lookout: 10.8 mi
- Anstine Hill: 17.7 mi
- Fox Island Beach: 21.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Allen County Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anstine Hill | SE 125° | 337 m | 17.7 mi |
| Mount Lookout | SSE 155° | 318 m | 10.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:41 | 19:13 | 19:49 |
| June solstice | 06:06 | 20:31 | 21:12 |
| September equinox | 07:25 | 18:59 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 07:58 | 16:29 | 17:13 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 29 | 38 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 54 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lima Wwtp, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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