Harry Ransom Center
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Harry Ransom Center is a museum in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 176 m. Shingle Hills stands 433 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Hi, How Are You, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Texas Hill Country Trail passes 4.5 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Harry Ransom Center, known as the Humanities Research Center until 1983, is an archive, library, and museum at the University of Texas at Austin, specializing in the collection of literary and cultural artifacts from the Americas and Europe for the purpose of advancing the study of the arts and humanities. The Ransom Center houses 36 million literary manuscripts, one million rare books, five million photographs, and more than 100,000 works of art. The center has a reading room for scholars and galleries which display rotating exhibitions of works and objects from the collections. In the 2015–16 academic year, the center hosted nearly 6,000 research visits, resulting in the publication of over 145 books.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1957.
Wikidata Q5671855, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 32 m
How to reach it
- 4.5 mi off the Texas Hill Country Trail
- 22.3 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
- 25.0 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Sunset Deck · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Hi, How Are You: 0.1 mi
- George Washington: 0.1 mi
- The Torchbearers: 0.1 mi
- Pedogna: 0.1 mi
- Square Tilt: 0.2 mi
- James C. Hogg: 0.2 mi
- UT Tower Shooting Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Gerhard-Schoch House: 0.2 mi
- Littlefield Home: 0.2 mi
- Goodall Wooten House: 0.3 mi
- Honors Quad: 0.3 mi
- Capitol Mall: 0.4 mi
- Dell Technologies Plaza: 0.6 mi
- Austin Recreation Center: 0.6 mi
- Eastwoods Neighborhood Park: 0.7 mi
- Blunn Creek Nature Preserve: 3.5 mi
- Colorado River Park Wildlife Sanctuary: 3.8 mi
- Red Bluff Nature Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Alpine Road Site: 4.4 mi
- Shudde Fath Tract: 4.8 mi
- Memorial Garden: 0.2 mi
- Garden patch: 0.4 mi
- Lady Bird Johnson Texas Capitol Flower Gardens: 0.6 mi
- Luci and Ian's Family Hill Country Garden: 0.8 mi
- Ellie's Garden: 1.3 mi
- Mount Bonnell: 3.2 mi
- Mount Barker: 3.4 mi
- Mount Larson: 3.6 mi
- Mount Lucas: 3.6 mi
- Cat Mountain: 5.2 mi
- Santa Rita No. 1 Oil Well: 0.5 mi
- French Legation State Historic Site: 1.3 mi
- Statesman Bat Observation Center: 1.7 mi
- South Congress Bat Colony: 1.8 mi
- Rock Wall At Zilker: 2.0 mi
- Twin Falls: 4.9 mi
- Sculpture Falls: 5.2 mi
- Hill of Life Falls: 5.5 mi
- Lower Bull Creek Falls: 6.2 mi
- Middle Bull Creek Falls: 6.5 mi
- Seiders Spring: 1.5 mi
- Deep Eddy Pool: 2.0 mi
- Eliza Spring: 2.2 mi
- Shady Spring: 8.4 mi
- Queen's Bath: 13.9 mi
- New Sweden: 16.1 mi
- McDuff: 17.1 mi
- Goforth: 18.4 mi
- Palm Valley: 19.3 mi
- Lytton Springs: 20.8 mi
- Bird Bluff: 3.7 mi
- Seismic Wall: 4.5 mi
- Fern Bluff: 16.5 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 21.5 mi
- Covered Picnic Tables: 6.1 mi
- Stone picnic table: 6.8 mi
- The Learning Tree: 8.3 mi
- Lake Creek Trailhead Picnic Area: 12.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Harry Ransom Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shingle Hills | W 273° | 433 m | 20.6 mi |
| Wallace Mountain | WSW 252° | 406 m | 21.0 mi |
| Travis Peak | NW 315° | 382 m | 24.4 mi |
| Round Mountain | NW 326° | 366 m | 24.9 mi |
| Chalk Knob | W 272° | 364 m | 15.0 mi |
| Flint Rock Hill | WNW 282° | 360 m | 14.3 mi |
| Signal Hill | WSW 243° | 353 m | 14.3 mi |
| Polecat Knob | NW 324° | 346 m | 22.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:11 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:30 | 20:01 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:57 | 19:29 |
| December solstice | 07:24 | 16:59 | 17:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 56 | 63 | 70 | 77 | 83 | 86 | 87 | 81 | 72 | 61 | 54 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.9 | 2.4 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 2.0 | 2.7 | 3.5 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Austin-camp Mabry, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/172047175
Day trips start here
- Austin · 1 mi
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