Pontiac - Oakland Museum and Resource Center
Pontiac - Oakland Museum and Resource Center is a museum in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 195 m. Smiths Mound stands 228 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Historic Route 66 runs past it. 89 named places lie within 25 miles.
The story
city in Illinois, USA
Dates from 1837.
Wikidata Q574912, matched on coordinates and name (42 m apart).
What to expect
- Fee
- donation
How to reach it
- On the Historic Route 66, National
89 named places within 25 miles
- Humiston Riverside Park: 0.2 mi
- Fell Park: 0.3 mi
- Play Park: 0.4 mi
- Lions Park: 0.4 mi
- Dargan Park: 0.4 mi
- Humiston Woods Nature Center: 6.1 mi
- Weston Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve: 9.2 mi
- Lexington Preserve: 19.6 mi
- Merwin Savannah Nature Preserve: 20.2 mi
- Sweeney Woods Preserve: 21.2 mi
- Route 66 Association Hall of Fame & Museum: 0.1 mi
- Livingston County War Museum: 0.1 mi
- Catherine Yost House Museum: 0.1 mi
- Jones House: 0.2 mi
- Fairbury Echoes: 11.0 mi
- Ladd School Subway: 0.5 mi
- Raymond Schultz Round Barn: 2.8 mi
- Standard Oil Gas Station: 10.0 mi
- Memory Lane: 18.1 mi
- ATSF Depot: 19.6 mi
- John Patton Log Cabin: 17.8 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 19.8 mi
- Pluto Monument: 21.4 mi
- Limestone Rest Area (Southbound): 4.1 mi
- Limestone Rest Area (Northbound): 4.9 mi
- OSF St. James-John W. Albrecht Medical Center Community Garden: 2.6 mi
- Picnic Grove: 6.2 mi
- Smiths Mound: 12.9 mi
- Reuben G. Soderstrom: 19.9 mi
- Cardiff: 21.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pontiac - Oakland Museum and Resource Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smiths Mound | NNW 346° | 228 m | 12.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:31 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:49 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:46 | 16:30 |
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 | 25 | 29 | 40 | 52 | 63 | 72 | 75 | 73 | 67 | 55 | 41 | 30 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 2.6 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pontiac, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/2865571295
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