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Amador County Museum

Amador County Museum from directly overhead

Amador County Museum is a museum in California, at a recorded elevation of 381 m. Devils Nose stands 1,445 m to the east-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Plaza Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway passes 23 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
381 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.35077, -120.77312
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Peaks
Museums: 14
  • Change House Museum and Gift Shop: 1.3 mi
  • Knight Foundry: 3.3 mi
  • Monteverde Store Museum: 3.4 mi
  • Amador Whitney Museum: 5.4 mi
  • Amador County Model Railroad Museum: 7.8 mi
Historic sites: 11
  • Tailing Wheel No. 3: 0.8 mi
  • Flume Tressel Piers: 0.9 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 2: 1.0 mi
  • Tailing Wheel No. 1: 1.0 mi
  • Massa Tunnel: 1.0 mi
Attractions: 11
  • Kennedy Gold Mine: 1.2 mi
  • Sutter Gold Mine: 4.6 mi
  • Historic Joseph H. Thomas House: 5.5 mi
  • The Old Schoolhouse, Drytown: 7.5 mi
  • Black Chasm Cavern: 9.7 mi
Springs: 6
  • Spanish Spring: 9.6 mi
  • Canzatti Spring: 14.7 mi
  • Marble Springs: 17.2 mi
  • Liddicoat Spring: 18.2 mi
  • Sugar Spring: 21.1 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Picnic sites: 3
  • A Picnic Area: 17.4 mi
  • B Picnic Area: 17.5 mi
  • C Picnic Area: 17.6 mi
Gardens: 1
  • F - Master Gardener's Demonstration Garden: 12.5 mi
Beaches: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Amador County Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Devils NoseENE 68°1,445 m20.6 mi
Bald MountainENE 75°1,247 m18.5 mi
Mount CrossmanENE 59°1,184 m15.2 mi
Round MountainNNE 33°1,063 m15.5 mi
Cement HillNNE 31°1,018 m16.9 mi
Fort MountainE 92°999 m16.2 mi
Mount ZionENE 68°899 m7.1 mi
Mineral MountainESE 122°856 m20.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:4019:15
June solstice05:4019:5120:31
September equinox06:5218:2719:02
December solstice07:1716:0516:47

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F475052566371787773655447
Precip in6.15.74.92.81.70.40.00.00.21.73.15.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sutter Hill CDF, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/368174105

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