DeLand House Museum

DeLand House Museum is a museum in Florida, at a recorded elevation of 12 m. Buncombe Hill stands 12 m to the northeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Rinker Native Plant Garden, a park 0.1 miles away. RIV OF LKS HRTG CORR runs past it. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The DeLand House Museum is located at 137 West Michigan Avenue, DeLand, Florida. Built in 1886 by Henry Addison DeLand, it changed hands numerous times until it was donated to the city of DeLand in 1988. It opened as a Victorian era historic house museum in 1990. The museum also contains materials related to the history of western Volusia County, and is operated by the West Volusia Historical Society.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1990.
Wikidata Q5243973, matched on coordinates and name (29 m apart).
What the record says
- Elevation
- 12 m
How to reach it
- On the RIV OF LKS HRTG CORR, National
- 12.3 mi off the FLORIDA BLACK BEAR, National
- 15.9 mi off the HRTG CROSSROADS HWY
- 19.3 mi off the HALIFAX HERITAGE BYWAY
Overlooks nearby
- Airport Observation Deck · 19 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Rinker Native Plant Garden: 0.1 mi
- Forest of Arden: 0.2 mi
- CUB Circle: 0.2 mi
- Painter's Pond Park: 0.3 mi
- Pioneer Park: 0.3 mi
- Volusia Blue Spring: 6.3 mi
- DeLeon Spring: 7.8 mi
- Mosquito Springs: 7.8 mi
- Gemini Springs: 11.8 mi
- Green Springs: 12.3 mi
- Duncan Gallery of Art: 0.2 mi
- Hand Art Center: 0.2 mi
- Museum of Florida Art: 0.3 mi
- Gillespie Museum: 0.3 mi
- Museum of Art: 0.4 mi
- Hulley Tower: 0.2 mi
- Chuck Lennon Memorial: 6.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 9.7 mi
- F-15 Eagle: 11.4 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 15.2 mi
- Scrub Oak Preserve: 3.9 mi
- Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park: 5.0 mi
- Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park: 5.4 mi
- Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park: 6.0 mi
- Lower Wekiva River Preserve State Park: 6.9 mi
- Reverend Eloise Page Meditation Garden: 6.2 mi
- Webster Gardens: 6.3 mi
- The Bunny Garden: 6.3 mi
- Bride's Garden: 7.4 mi
- Harmony Gardens Tropical Wedding Garden: 7.4 mi
- John B. Stetson: 0.2 mi
- Bluemner Kouba Collection: Oscar Bluemner: 0.2 mi
- Alligator Sculpture: 13.4 mi
- Rock: 14.7 mi
- Pathways to the Sky: 18.6 mi
- Skydive Deland: 2.6 mi
- ZOOm Air Orlando: 14.4 mi
- UNOH FanZone: 17.7 mi
- Daytona International Speedway Visitors Center: 18.0 mi
- Zoom Air Adventure Park: 19.7 mi
- Bowers Bluff: 12.9 mi
- Morrison Bluff: 17.1 mi
- Caldwell Point: 21.7 mi
- Buncombe Hill: 13.1 mi
- Shell Mound: 17.5 mi
- Green Mound: 22.2 mi
- Disappearing Island: 23.0 mi
- Inlet Shore Beach Area: 23.6 mi
- The Grove: 15.4 mi
- Central Florida Bible Camp: 19.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of DeLand House Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buncombe Hill | NE 41° | 12 m | 13.1 mi |
| Shell Mound | NW 306° | 2 m | 17.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:06 | 19:37 |
| June solstice | 06:28 | 19:53 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:52 | 19:23 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:57 | 17:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 57 | 60 | 64 | 69 | 75 | 80 | 82 | 82 | 79 | 73 | 65 | 60 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.4 | 3.5 | 2.5 | 4.2 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 7.1 | 6.9 | 4.0 | 2.3 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Deland 1 SSE, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/663014586
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- Daytona Beach · 20 mi
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