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Ferndale Museum, a museum in California
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Ferndale Museum, a museum in California
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Ferndale Museum, a museum in California
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Ferndale Museum, a museum in California
Roman Eugeniusz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ferndale Museum, a museum in California
Roman Eugeniusz · CC BY-SA 3.0
Ferndale Museum, a museum in California
Ellin Beltz · Public domain

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Ferndale Museum is a museum in California, at a recorded elevation of 16 m. Hansen Hill stands 1,088 m to the east, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Ferndale Tourist Information Center, a attraction 0.1 miles away. 44 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

The nonprofit Ferndale Museum, located in Ferndale, California, houses and exhibits artifacts, documents and papers from settlement during the California Gold Rush to the present including an active Bosch-Omori seismograph. The area of collection covers the lower Eel River Valley as far south as the Mattole River Valley and west to the Pacific Ocean. Collections include over 8,000 photographs, back issues of the Ferndale Enterprise newspaper, and family papers spanning 150 years.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q5445063, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
16 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.57836, -124.26341
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Firemen's Park: 0.4 mi
  • Fern Cottage Historic District: 2.5 mi
  • Loleta Community Park: 4.8 mi
  • Crab County Park: 5.0 mi
  • Rohner Park: 6.1 mi
Peaks: 44
  • Sugarloaf Mountain: 1.2 mi
  • Buzzards Peak: 4.1 mi
  • Tompkins Hill: 5.5 mi
  • Bunker Hill: 5.8 mi
  • Little Bald Hill: 6.4 mi
Museums: 13
Nature reserves: 11
Attractions: 9
  • Ferndale Tourist Information Center: 0.1 mi
  • Carson Mansion: 16.6 mi
  • Blue Ox Millworks: 17.0 mi
  • George C. Lindley Memorial Bridge: 18.3 mi
  • The Immortal Tree: 19.1 mi
Historic sites: 9
Artworks: 6
  • Giant Wooden Cross: 6.2 mi
  • Ellis Art & Architecture Supplies: 16.3 mi
  • Following Current Events: 16.4 mi
  • Giant Flower Pot Sculpture: 22.0 mi
  • APD Mural: 22.2 mi
Beaches: 5
  • Centerville Beach: 4.5 mi
  • Lost Coast: 12.3 mi
  • Somoa Beach: 17.3 mi
  • Mattole Beach: 20.6 mi
  • Dyerville River Bar: 23.7 mi
Cliffs: 5
Gardens: 4
Picnic sites: 4
  • Drury-Chaney Trail Head: 17.3 mi
  • Big Trees Day Use Area: 21.2 mi
  • Blue Slide Day Use Area: 21.4 mi
  • Dyerville Overlook: 23.6 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Elephant Rock: 7.1 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Pepperwood Falls: 22.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hansen HillE 93°1,088 m23.6 mi
South Rainbow PeakSSE 154°1,078 m17.9 mi
Bald JesseE 97°1,050 m20.3 mi
Iaqua ButtesENE 68°1,042 m21.1 mi
Iaqua ButtesENE 68°1,042 m21.1 mi
Taylor PeakS 171°1,030 m14.1 mi
Grasshopper MountainSE 141°1,028 m24.0 mi
Rainbow PeakSSE 158°1,026 m13.7 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2118:5319:29
June solstice05:4720:1120:52
September equinox07:0518:4019:16
December solstice07:3816:1016:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F505051535759626362585348
Precip in8.67.86.93.91.90.60.10.10.52.45.29.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Scotia, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1459471089

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