Pinson Mounds Museum and Visitor Center
Pinson Mounds Museum and Visitor Center is a museum in Tennessee, at a modelled elevation of 131 m. Sand Mountain stands 224 m to the east-southeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park, a park 0.2 miles away. 72 named places lie within 25 miles, 14 of them named summits.
How to reach it
72 named places within 25 miles
- Pinson Mounds State Archaeological Park: 0.2 mi
- Roadside Park: 2.8 mi
- Gene Record Memorial Park: 3.6 mi
- Henderson Wi-Fi Park: 4.7 mi
- Memorial Park: 4.9 mi
- Mount Pinson: 1.5 mi
- Norton Hill: 5.9 mi
- Crown Point Hill: 9.2 mi
- Halloway Hill: 9.3 mi
- Rose Hill: 10.9 mi
- Bemis Mill Village Museum: 9.5 mi
- NC&StL Railroad Museum: 10.5 mi
- Rock A Billy Hall of Fame: 11.1 mi
- Rusty's TV & Movie Car Museum: 12.0 mi
- Casey Jones Home: 14.8 mi
- Memorial Bridge: 16.9 mi
- Unknown cemetery: 23.4 mi
- Simón Bolívar: 24.0 mi
- Adamsville War Memorial Park: 24.3 mi
- Engine 382: 14.8 mi
- Judge Milton Brown Passenger Car: 14.9 mi
- Casey Jones Village: 14.9 mi
- Medicine Wheel: 0.4 mi
- Pleasant Run Creek Community Garden: 24.2 mi
- Lion Statue: 4.7 mi
- Brewers Spring Well: 9.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pinson Mounds Museum and Visitor Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Mountain | ESE 104° | 224 m | 12.7 mi |
| Mount Peter | SSE 150° | 209 m | 16.7 mi |
| Bald Knob | SE 134° | 194 m | 17.5 mi |
| Rose Hill | S 191° | 193 m | 10.9 mi |
| Little Pine Knob | ENE 69° | 193 m | 19.5 mi |
| Laurel Hill | S 187° | 191 m | 12.7 mi |
| Ross Mountain | SSW 209° | 184 m | 14.3 mi |
| Big Pine Knob | ENE 66° | 184 m | 19.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:33 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:41 | 19:36 | 20:14 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:20 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:01 | 16:07 | 16:46 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 41 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 59 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 5.2 | 5.6 | 6.1 | 6.4 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Henderson 4 W, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 66000727OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/502716007
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