St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall
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St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall is a museum in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 635 m. Bald Knob stands 1,327 m to the northwest, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Upper Quad, a park 0.2 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 18 miles off.
The story
The Odd Fellows Hall, also known as Tadmore Light Lodge, No. 6184, is a historic Grand United Order of Odd Fellows meeting hall located at Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia. It was built in 1905, and is a two-story frame structure clad in painted weatherboard siding. It has a standing seam metal gable roof. The building served throughout the early- to mid-20th century as the social center of the local African-American community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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Wikidata Q7077348, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Built
- 1905
What to expect
- Operated by
- Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation
How to reach it
- 17.8 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 22.4 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
Overlooks nearby
- Devil's Backbone Overlook · 22 mi
- Pine Spur Overlook · 23 mi
- Smart View Overlook · 25 mi
- Roanoke Mountain Loop Lookout · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Upper Quad: 0.2 mi
- Shanks Plain: 0.2 mi
- PT Pit: 0.2 mi
- VTCC 'VT": 0.3 mi
- Henderson Lawn: 0.4 mi
- High Knob: 3.1 mi
- Price Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Paris Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Hightop Mountain: 5.1 mi
- Gap Mountain: 5.1 mi
- VTCC WW1 and April 16th Memorial: 0.3 mi
- The Pylons: 0.4 mi
- April 16th Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Winfrey’s Rock: 0.7 mi
- Prices Fork Research Center Building - Architecture - Former.: 4.1 mi
- Perspective Gallery: 0.4 mi
- Frank Beamer Statue: 1.1 mi
- Ode to Jeff Gordon: 2.1 mi
- Coal Mining Memorial Coal Carts: 4.0 mi
- Modern Art: 4.1 mi
- Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation: 0.6 mi
- Smithfield Plantation: 1.3 mi
- Christiansburg Institute Museum: 7.2 mi
- Montgomery Museum of Art and History: 7.2 mi
- Andrew Johnston House: 18.5 mi
- Falls Ridge Preserve: 6.2 mi
- Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve: 7.8 mi
- Sweet Springs State Natural Area Preserve: 9.6 mi
- Niday Place State Forest: 11.0 mi
- Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve: 13.1 mi
- Bear Cliff: 10.2 mi
- Bear Cliffs: 10.2 mi
- Barney's Wall: 13.0 mi
- Barneys Wall: 13.0 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 16.2 mi
- Sapphire Ballroom & Dance Center: 7.3 mi
- Keffer Oak: 8.4 mi
- Eastern Continental Divide: 12.4 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 13.5 mi
- One Clear View: 22.7 mi
- Hahn Horticultural Garden: 1.0 mi
- Piedmont Vegetable Garden: 2.2 mi
- Radford Alumni Memorial Garden: 9.7 mi
- Volvo Break Area Indoor Garden: 19.3 mi
- Break Area Indoor Garden and Gazebo: 19.4 mi
- Cascades: 12.5 mi
- Camp Creek: 15.5 mi
- Bent Mountain Falls: 15.5 mi
- Haven Heights Picnic Site: 9.9 mi
- Smart View Recreation Area: 24.7 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 10.8 mi
- Radford Safety Rest Area North: 11.0 mi
- Water Front: 18.8 mi
- Waterfront: 22.9 mi
- Spring Well #25: 22.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.2 miles of St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | NW 321° | 1,327 m | 10.2 mi |
| Butt Mountain | NW 310° | 1,282 m | 14.5 mi |
| Lookoff Rock | NW 310° | 1,256 m | 14.2 mi |
| Wind Rock | NNW 337° | 1,246 m | 13.6 mi |
| Brushy Top | NW 318° | 1,236 m | 14.7 mi |
| Lone Pine Peak | NNW 341° | 1,232 m | 12.7 mi |
| Salt Pond Mountain | NNW 341° | 1,231 m | 12.7 mi |
| Doe Mountain | NW 316° | 1,211 m | 11.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 06:02 | 20:07 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:28 | 17:08 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 35 | 42 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Blacksburg Nwso, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/421957916
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- Roanoke · 27 mi
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