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Lee County Museum

Lee County Museum is a museum in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 148 m. Yegua Benchmark stands 232 m to the northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Fletcher Home, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Brazos Trail passes 5.3 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

building in Giddings, Lee County, Texas

Wikidata Q107317542, matched on coordinates and name (17 m apart).

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 148 m

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Coordinates30.18200, -96.93670

5.3 mi off the Texas Brazos Trail
16.1 mi off the Texas Independence Trail

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites

Parks47

Simmang Northwest Park: 0.7 mi
Veterans Park: 0.8 mi
Giddings Volunteer Fire Department Firemen's Park: 2.4 mi
Lake Somerville State Park - Nails Creek Unit: 14.4 mi
Lake Somerville State Park - Nails Creek Unit: 14.7 mi

Peaks12

Buzzard Knobs: 11.0 mi
Hellers Hill: 13.7 mi
Indian Hill: 15.0 mi
Homeyer Mountain: 16.1 mi
Yegua Knobbs: 18.5 mi

Ghost towns10

Grassyville: 9.1 mi
Pin Oak: 11.3 mi
Yewpon: 16.4 mi
Flower Hill: 19.0 mi
Oak Hill: 19.3 mi

Museums8

Texas Wendish Heritage Museum: 5.4 mi
Center for American History Winedale Historical Center: 13.9 mi
Round Top Area History Museum: 13.9 mi
Smithville Railroad Historical Park and Museum: 15.5 mi
N W Faison Home and Museum: 19.9 mi

Cliffs3

White Bluffs: 16.2 mi
Chalk Bluff: 17.3 mi
Red Bluffs: 21.7 mi

Gardens2

Memorial Grove: 14.1 mi
Bastrop Community Garden: 23.4 mi

Artworks1

The Dime Box: 13.8 mi

Attractions1

CCC Water Fountain: 21.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Yegua Benchmark	NW 306°	232 m	18.8 mi
Yegua Knobbs	NW 305°	225 m	18.5 mi
Lotman Hill	W 263°	201 m	19.3 mi
Royston Hill	SW 232°	174 m	22.1 mi
Hellers Hill	SE 140°	168 m	13.7 mi
Homeyer Mountain	E 95°	139 m	16.1 mi
Clay Hill	NW 323°	138 m	20.6 mi
Monument Hill	S 172°	138 m	20.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:32	19:08	19:40
June solstice	06:28	19:58	20:33
September equinox	07:17	18:54	19:26
December solstice	07:21	16:56	17:33

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Dec.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	50	54	61	67	75	82	84	85	79	70	59	52
Precip in	3.1	2.2	2.9	2.6	4.7	3.2	2.1	2.6	3.1	4.6	3.3	3.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lexington, 16 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/368165613

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