Oil Storage Building
Oil Storage Building is a museum in Florida, at a modelled elevation of 7 m. Buncombe Hill stands 12 m to the west-northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is USLHS Fog Bell, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. HALIFAX HERITAGE BYWAY runs past it. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Built
- 1887
How to reach it
- On the HALIFAX HERITAGE BYWAY
- 14.8 mi off the RIV OF LKS HRTG CORR, National
- 16.1 mi off the ORMOND LOOP & TRAIL, National
- 16.6 mi off the FLORIDA BLACK BEAR, National
Overlooks nearby
- Airport Observation Deck · 10 mi
- Observation Tower · 29 mi
- Observation platform · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kay and Ares Davies Lighthouse Park: 0.0 mi
- Lighthouse Point Park: 0.3 mi
- Smyrna Dunes Park: 1.2 mi
- Spruce Creek Perserve: 1.6 mi
- Glenwood Avenue Park: 1.8 mi
- Lens Exhibit Building: 0.0 mi
- Pumphouse: 0.0 mi
- Generator Building: 0.0 mi
- Second Assistant Keeper's Dwelling: 0.0 mi
- First Assistant Keeper's Dwelling: 0.0 mi
- USLHS Fog Bell: 0.0 mi
- Ponce Inlet Veterans Memorial: 0.0 mi
- New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins State Historic Site: 5.0 mi
- 9/11 Memorial: 5.9 mi
- Veterans Park: 6.4 mi
- Brownie the Town Dog Memorial: 10.4 mi
- Wings of Change: 10.4 mi
- Pathways to the Sky: 10.4 mi
- Wright Flyer Replica: 10.4 mi
- Reaching New Horizons: 10.4 mi
- Nature Playground Garden: 3.2 mi
- Flower Circle: 6.3 mi
- Legacy Garden: 10.4 mi
- Derbyshire Place Community Garden: 13.3 mi
- Public Garden: 15.8 mi
- Disappearing Island: 0.7 mi
- Inlet Shore Beach Area: 1.2 mi
- New Smyrna Beach: 4.3 mi
- Apollo Beach: 14.3 mi
- Apollo Beach: 18.2 mi
- Doris Leeper Spruce Creek Preserve: 4.6 mi
- Canaveral National Seashore: 13.3 mi
- Turnbull Hammock Conservation Area: 14.4 mi
- Pineland Natural Conservation Area: 18.2 mi
- D Ranch Preserve: 22.9 mi
- Zoom Air Adventure Park: 10.8 mi
- UNOH FanZone: 11.3 mi
- Daytona International Speedway Visitors Center: 11.4 mi
- Skydive Deland: 21.2 mi
- Green Mound: 2.7 mi
- Bull Hill: 15.5 mi
- Buncombe Hill: 15.7 mi
- Green Springs: 24.5 mi
- Seminole Spring: 24.6 mi
- The Grove: 11.0 mi
- Eldora: 13.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Oil Storage Building. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buncombe Hill | WNW 295° | 12 m | 15.7 mi |
| Bull Hill | SSE 159° | 4 m | 15.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:28 | 19:04 | 19:36 |
| June solstice | 06:26 | 19:52 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:50 | 19:22 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:55 | 17:31 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–Jun.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 60 | 61 | 65 | 71 | 76 | 80 | 82 | 82 | 80 | 75 | 69 | 63 |
| Precip in | 2.8 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 7.5 | 6.1 | 6.5 | 6.9 | 4.5 | 2.3 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NEW Smyrna BCH - Marine Discov, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 72000355OpenStreetMap- National Register of Historic Places — Ponce De Leon Inlet Lightstation, reference 72000355, listed 09/22/72.
OpenStreetMap element way/318263243
Day trips start here
- Daytona Beach · 11 mi
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