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Kossuth County Historical Museum

Kossuth County Historical Museum from directly overhead

Kossuth County Historical Museum is a museum in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 368 m. The nearest named place is Camp Algona POW Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. 125 named places lie within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 368 m

Visiting

What to expect

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.06802, -94.23691

Around it

125 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves60

Hurlburt Wildlife Area: 2.4 mi
Smith Prairie Preserve: 2.7 mi
Wildwood Recreation Area: 3.0 mi
Smith Wildlife Area: 3.1 mi
Bur Oak Wildlife Management Area: 3.6 mi

Parks43

Maple Park: 0.3 mi
Central Park: 0.5 mi
Blackford Park: 0.5 mi
Veterans Park: 0.7 mi
Ambrose A Call State Park: 1.1 mi

Museums11

Camp Algona POW Museum: 0.1 mi
Lone Rock Historical Depot & Museum: 11.4 mi
West Bend Historical Society Museum: 13.0 mi
Cylinder Heritage Museum: 15.9 mi
Hobo Museum: 22.1 mi

Attractions4

Lone Rock: 11.4 mi
Grotto of the Redemption: 12.8 mi
Lu Verne City Jail: 13.3 mi
Wild Rose Casino and Resort: 21.7 mi

Ghost towns3

Plum Creek: 3.5 mi
Sexton: 7.5 mi
Unique: 24.9 mi

Historic sites3

MIA-POW Display: 15.5 mi
Britt Veterans Memorial/ Freedom Rock: 22.0 mi
Robert Emmet Statue: 22.5 mi

Artworks1

Kossuth Lajos: 0.1 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:21	18:52	19:29
June solstice	05:38	20:17	21:01
September equinox	07:05	18:39	19:16
December solstice	07:46	15:59	16:46

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	15	20	33	46	59	69	72	70	63	50	34	22
Precip in	0.9	1.0	1.9	3.4	4.7	5.5	4.1	4.3	3.3	2.4	1.5	1.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Algona, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Official site

OpenStreetMap element node/367089716

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