Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is a museum in Ohio, at a modelled elevation of 229 m. Beavers Hill stands 383 m to the east-northeast, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Wexner Center Roof Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Historic National Road - Ohio passes 2.6 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum is a research library of American cartoons and comic art affiliated with the Ohio State University library system in Columbus, Ohio. Formerly known as the Cartoon Research Library and the Cartoon Library & Museum, it holds the world's largest and most comprehensive academic research facility documenting and displaying original and printed comic strips, editorial cartoons, and cartoon art. The museum is named after the Ohio cartoonist Billy Ireland. Covering comic books, daily strips, Sunday strips, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, magazine cartoons, and sports cartoons, the collection includes 450,000 original cartoons, 36,000 books, 51,000 serial titles, and 3,000 feet (910 m) of manuscript materials, plus 2.5 million comic strip clippings and tear sheets.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1977.
Wikidata Q4912763, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- 2.6 mi off the Historic National Road - Ohio, National
- 7.7 mi off the Jefferson Township Scenic Byway
- 7.9 mi off the Scenic Olentangy Heritage Corridor
- 11.8 mi off the Big Darby Plains Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Stag · 3 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Color Block No. 2: 0.0 mi
- Groundswell: 0.0 mi
- Friendship Walk: 0.1 mi
- Color Block: 0.1 mi
- Petit Five: 0.1 mi
- The Underground Railroad on University Land: 0.1 mi
- Five Brothers Rock: 0.2 mi
- Orton Hall: 0.2 mi
- Willie J. Young, Sr.: 0.2 mi
- Site of Ohio Field: 0.2 mi
- Commencement Grove: 0.2 mi
- Ohio Field Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Denney Courtyard: 0.2 mi
- The Oval: 0.2 mi
- South Oval: 0.2 mi
- Glen High Parkland: 1.3 mi
- Parkview Parkland: 1.4 mi
- Wilma H. Shiermeier Olentangy River Wetland Research Park: 1.5 mi
- Webster Park: 2.8 mi
- Tarpy's Woods: 3.0 mi
- Wexner Center Roof Garden: 0.0 mi
- Bosque Garden: 0.5 mi
- Knowlton Rooftop Garden: 0.5 mi
- South Garden: 0.5 mi
- North Garden: 0.5 mi
- Orton Geological Museum: 0.2 mi
- Museum of Classical Archaeology: 0.3 mi
- University Museum: 0.3 mi
- Nicklaus Museum: 1.1 mi
- Ohio History Center: 1.2 mi
- Geologic Walkway Park: 1.1 mi
- Armintrout Fire Tower: 1.1 mi
- Ohio History Connection: 1.2 mi
- Ohio Village: 1.2 mi
- Palm House: 3.7 mi
- Sandefur Wetland Pavilion: 1.6 mi
- Brevoort Park: 2.6 mi
- Picnic Area: 3.1 mi
- River Bluffs: 9.5 mi
- Ze Goat Picnic: 9.5 mi
- Baker Hill: 6.8 mi
- Marlboro Hill: 7.3 mi
- Spangler Hill: 10.0 mi
- Beavers Hill: 17.6 mi
- Wonderland: 7.3 mi
- Hibernia: 9.1 mi
- Carpenter's Mill: 16.2 mi
- Edinburgh: 22.1 mi
- Milliken Falls: 4.3 mi
- Indian Run Falls: 9.1 mi
- Indian Run Falls: 9.2 mi
- Dublin Spring: 8.8 mi
- Hocking River ?: 19.7 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 20.8 mi
- Prairie Oaks Dog Beach: 13.1 mi
- Alum Creek Beach: 13.3 mi
- Lee M. Rizor Memorial Highway Rest Area: 16.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beavers Hill | ENE 71° | 383 m | 17.6 mi |
| Spangler Hill | S 177° | 243 m | 10.0 mi |
| Baker Hill | SSE 162° | 241 m | 6.8 mi |
| Marlboro Hill | S 176° | 190 m | 7.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:09 | 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 | 31 | 41 | 53 | 63 | 72 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Columbus Wcmh, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/6859133886
Day trips start here
- Columbus/University Area · 0 mi
- Columbus · 3 mi
- Columbus/South · 5 mi
- London · 24 mi
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