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Gardner Historical Museum

Gardner Historical Museum from directly overhead

Gardner Historical Museum is a museum in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 326 m. Blue Mound stands 318 m to the west-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Meadowbrook Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Frontier Military Historic Byway passes 13 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
326 m
Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates38.81129, -94.93128

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
  • Trails West: 5.4 mi
  • Sprout: 7.9 mi
  • Theb: 8.2 mi
  • Harvest Prayer Sculpture and Campus Mall: 9.2 mi
  • Copper Hopper Chopper by David Seitzinger: 12.9 mi
Historic sites
  • Veterans Memorial Plaza: 5.9 mi
  • Cannon: 7.5 mi
  • Miller’s Wood Sports Complex: 13.6 mi
  • Dorothy Akin Memorial Prairie: 13.8 mi
  • Austin's Park Memorial: 14.1 mi
Museums: 43
  • Lanesfield Historic Site: 3.6 mi
  • Ensor Park and Museum: 6.9 mi
  • Museum of Deaf History, Arts & Culture: 8.0 mi
  • Kansas City Automotive Museum: 11.8 mi
  • Monticello Community Historical Society: 12.1 mi
Gardens: 23
  • Green Tech Garden: 6.6 mi
  • Monarch Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Butterfly Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Bee Garden: 8.2 mi
  • Bird Garden: 8.2 mi
Nature reserves: 14
Attractions: 13
Peaks: 8
Ghost towns: 8
Cliffs: 6
Beaches: 4
  • Swim Beach: 7.4 mi
  • Windsurfer Beach: 9.9 mi
  • Miola Beach: 16.0 mi
  • Bloomington Beach: 24.4 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Cedar Lake Falls: 5.1 mi
  • Turkey Creek Falls: 20.2 mi
  • Wakarusa River Falls: 22.5 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Watts Mill: 19.7 mi
  • Overlook Park Shelter 1: 23.7 mi
  • Overlook Park Shelter 2: 23.8 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blue MoundWNW 296°318 m15.0 mi
Fowler HillWSW 241°318 m15.5 mi
Mount OreadWNW 301°316 m20.1 mi
Shank HillWNW 287°304 m18.6 mi
Sanders MoundWNW 291°288 m23.5 mi
Observation BluffNW 317°277 m9.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2418:5719:32
June solstice05:5620:0920:49
September equinox07:0818:4319:18
December solstice07:3516:2017:02

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303445556575797769574434
Precip in1.11.52.33.85.15.34.24.03.73.31.91.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Olathe Johnson CO IND AP, 2 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element node/366765946

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