Sharp Museum
Sharp Museum is a museum in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 135 m. Bald Knob stands 314 m to the south-southwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Kumakura Garden, a garden less than a tenth of a mile away. Great River Road passes 13 miles off. 25 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 13.4 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 27.8 mi off the Great River Road - Missouri
Named places within 25 miles
- Historic Campus: 0.1 mi
- Central Campus Park: 0.1 mi
- Quigley Park: 0.2 mi
- Thompson Woods: 0.2 mi
- Gaia Park: 0.2 mi
- McKinney Hill: 4.6 mi
- Indian Hill: 5.5 mi
- Mount Carbon: 5.8 mi
- Swallow Rock: 10.3 mi
- Lookout Rocks: 11.2 mi
- SIU Entrance Monument: 0.3 mi
- SIU Entrance Monument: 0.3 mi
- SIU Entrance Monument: 0.3 mi
- SIU Entrance Monument: 0.5 mi
- Merideth Funeral Home: 0.6 mi
- Morava Point: 0.7 mi
- Saluki Cove: 0.7 mi
- Cypress Retreat: 0.8 mi
- Hickory Grove Picnic Area: 9.4 mi
- Shady Cove: 9.6 mi
- k: 0.5 mi
- Faery: 3.1 mi
- Dragon: 3.1 mi
- Wizard on Dragon: 3.1 mi
- Blue Dragon: 3.1 mi
- Chautauqua Bottoms: 1.4 mi
- Fern Rocks Nature Preserve: 6.7 mi
- Giant City State Park: 7.6 mi
- Lake Murphysboro State Park: 9.8 mi
- Little Grand Canyon: 10.0 mi
- ps: 6.8 mi
- Mystic Willow: 7.1 mi
- ps: 8.1 mi
- ps: 8.1 mi
- Pomona Natural Bridge: 8.3 mi
- Shelter bluff: 8.2 mi
- Chalk Bluff: 10.6 mi
- Abneyville Rock: 10.6 mi
- Horseshoe Bluff: 11.0 mi
- Fountain Bluff: 15.9 mi
- The Carbondale Depot Museum: 0.7 mi
- African American Museum of Southern Illinois: 1.7 mi
- Giant City Visitor Center: 8.1 mi
- Carterville Heritage Museum: 8.3 mi
- Cobden Museum: 12.7 mi
- Kumakura Garden: 0.0 mi
- Student Center Garden: 0.2 mi
- Kaity's Garden: 0.6 mi
- Flyover Public Garden: 0.9 mi
- Heritage Garden: 7.4 mi
- Brownsville: 9.8 mi
- Chamness: 12.9 mi
- Halfway: 16.5 mi
- Lovejoy: 21.1 mi
- Halfway: 22.7 mi
- Seep: 8.5 mi
- Cave Spring: 12.9 mi
- Bottoms Spring: 14.4 mi
- Kinkaid Lake Spillway Falls: 13.3 mi
- Bjork's Falls: 16.2 mi
- Campground Beach: 6.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sharp Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | SSW 212° | 314 m | 13.3 mi |
| Tiptop Knob | S 184° | 269 m | 12.4 mi |
| Government Rock | SW 231° | 250 m | 15.3 mi |
| Grassy Knob | WSW 238° | 241 m | 13.5 mi |
| McGee Hill | SW 225° | 240 m | 16.6 mi |
| Buck Knob | SSE 152° | 217 m | 15.0 mi |
| Iron Mountain | SSW 200° | 212 m | 14.7 mi |
| Swallow Rock | W 261° | 198 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:44 | 20:23 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:21 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:09 | 16:01 | 16:42 |
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 | 32 | 36 | 45 | 56 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 46 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.1 | 4.5 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Carbondale Sewage PLT, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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