Fort Smith Museum of HIstory
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Fort Smith Museum of HIstory is a museum in Arkansas, at a modelled elevation of 134 m. Lockard Mountain stands 552 m to the north-northeast, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Barracks-Courthouse-Jail, a attraction 0.1 miles away.
The story
The Fort Smith Museum of History is located at 320 Rogers Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas. The museum is devoted to presenting the history of Fort Smith and the surrounding region. It is located near the Fort Smith National Historic Site in the former Atkinson-Williams Warehouse, built in 1906 and one of the city's oldest surviving commercial warehouse buildings. The building, a large four-story brick building with typical early-20th-century commercial styling, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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Dates from 1910.
Wikidata Q19865813, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Ross Pendergraft Park: 0.1 mi
- Officers' Quarters: 0.1 mi
- Commissary: 0.2 mi
- Frisco Train Station: 0.2 mi
- Park at West End: 0.2 mi
- Wildcat Mountain: 5.2 mi
- Mayfield Mountain: 6.2 mi
- Brooks Stephins Mountain: 7.2 mi
- George Mountain: 7.4 mi
- George Mountain: 7.6 mi
- Bass Reeves Statue: 0.1 mi
- Initial Point Marker: 0.2 mi
- Fort Smith Confederate Monument: 0.2 mi
- First Fort Smith: 0.2 mi
- William O. Darby: 0.5 mi
- Barracks-Courthouse-Jail: 0.1 mi
- Visitor Center: 0.1 mi
- Gallows: 0.1 mi
- Guardhouse: 0.1 mi
- Cistern: 0.1 mi
- Fort Smith Trolley Museum: 0.2 mi
- Clayton House: 0.5 mi
- United States Marshals Museum: 0.8 mi
- Fort Smith Regional Art Museum: 0.8 mi
- Chaffee Barbershop Museum: 8.9 mi
- NUMA Bronze Statue: 3.2 mi
- The Flower Tower: 7.5 mi
- Star Bluff: 12.4 mi
- Big Creek Narrows: 20.4 mi
- McWater Falls: 14.5 mi
- Natural Dam Waterfall: 18.2 mi
- Bekaert Garden: 5.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 21.6 miles of Fort Smith Museum of HIstory. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lockard Mountain | NNE 28° | 552 m | 21.3 mi |
| Grassy Mountain | NNE 28° | 508 m | 19.3 mi |
| Locust Mountain | NNE 32° | 505 m | 20.1 mi |
| Big Round Mountain | NNW 343° | 493 m | 18.6 mi |
| Bald Knob | NNE 19° | 492 m | 20.6 mi |
| Lick Mountain | N 351° | 469 m | 19.3 mi |
| Moten Mountain | NNW 338° | 443 m | 21.6 mi |
| Chinkapin Knob | N 2° | 442 m | 21.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:56 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 06:04 | 19:59 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:43 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:30 | 17:10 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 40 | 45 | 54 | 62 | 70 | 79 | 83 | 82 | 75 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.7 | 3.9 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — FT Smith Rgnl AP, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/262464342
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