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Museum of the Western Prairie

Museum of the Western Prairie from directly overhead

Museum of the Western Prairie is a museum in Oklahoma, at a modelled elevation of 427 m. King Mountain stands 732 m to the north, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is High Tower Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. 66 named places lie within 25 miles, 22 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes

Official site

Getting there

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Coordinates34.64859, -99.32790
Around it

66 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 28
  • High Tower Park: 0.0 mi
  • Kiwanis Ball Park: 0.1 mi
  • Imagination Station Park: 0.1 mi
  • Altus City Lake Hoyt Shadid Park: 0.5 mi
  • Hightower Park: 0.9 mi
Peaks: 22
Attractions: 6
  • Christmas Tree Pole: 0.9 mi
  • Beech JRB-4: 2.3 mi
  • Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker: 2.4 mi
  • Lockheed C-141B Starlifter: 2.5 mi
  • Douglas C-47B Skytrain: 2.5 mi
Historic sites: 6
Ghost towns: 3
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
King MountainN 7°732 m15.5 mi
Soldiers PeakNNE 20°727 m14.6 mi
Walsh MountainNNW 348°703 m23.1 mi
Tepee MountainNNE 24°674 m17.3 mi
Brown MountainNNW 348°662 m24.2 mi
Flat Top MountainNNE 17°657 m15.4 mi
Navajo MountainENE 77°626 m10.1 mi
Headquarters MountainN 351°622 m23.0 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4219:1619:49
June solstice06:2520:1720:54
September equinox07:2619:0219:36
December solstice07:4116:5217:31

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394352617180848375635141
Precip in1.11.11.72.44.13.92.43.02.62.71.41.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Altus Irig Rsch STN, 4 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/796742238

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