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Thomas Dodge Homestead

Thomas Dodge Homestead from directly overhead

Thomas Dodge Homestead is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 6 m. Buttermilk Hill stands 211 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. Bronx River Parkway passes 9.1 miles off.

About

The story

historic house in New York, United States

Wikidata Q14707467, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.83851, -73.69705

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Parks
  • Mill Pond Park: 0.1 mi
  • Lions Field: 0.2 mi
  • Robert H. Dayton Park: 0.3 mi
  • Bay Walk Park: 0.3 mi
  • Baxter Pond Park: 0.4 mi
Beaches
  • Baxter Estates Village Beach: 0.3 mi
  • PWEA Beach: 1.2 mi
  • Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 1.4 mi
  • Leeds Pond Beach: 1.5 mi
  • Sands Point Village Beach: 1.5 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Gardens
  • Colonial Garden: 1.8 mi
  • Freddy's Garden: 2.4 mi
  • Bird and Butterfly Garden: 2.8 mi
  • Formal Garden: 3.5 mi
  • Greentree Walled Garden: 3.6 mi
Artworks
Peaks
  • Harbor Hill: 4.0 mi
  • Queens High Point: 5.7 mi
  • Mill Neck Peak: 8.3 mi
  • Harrison Williams Woods Peak: 8.4 mi
  • Sagamore Hill: 10.7 mi
Attractions
  • Tillotson Steps: 8.0 mi
  • Cherry Circle & Four Season Border: 9.1 mi
  • Circle Garden: 9.1 mi
  • Pinetum: 9.1 mi
  • Wetland & Woodland Garden: 9.1 mi
Picnic sites: 40
  • Reserved Picnic Site: 8.8 mi
  • Lindens B: 9.7 mi
  • West Lindens: 9.7 mi
  • Lindens A: 9.7 mi
  • North Maples: 9.7 mi
Cliffs: 13
Lighthouses: 8
Waterfalls: 6
  • The Falls: 8.2 mi
  • The Loch: 14.1 mi
  • Binnen Falls: 18.6 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 18.6 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 18.9 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Vince Lombardi Service Area: 17.5 mi
  • Long Island Welcome Center: 20.1 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan SB Service Plaza: 22.5 mi
  • RT. 15 New Canaan NB Service Plaza: 22.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 21.3 miles of Thomas Dodge Homestead. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buttermilk HillNNW 342°211 m19.7 mi
Mount NeboNW 321°208 m18.8 mi
Reynolds HillNNW 349°180 m18.8 mi
Round HillN 4°172 m18.4 mi
Cooney HillN 354°170 m18.2 mi
Kennelwood HillNNW 349°156 m16.1 mi
Kykuit HillNNW 336°147 m19.0 mi
Beaver HillNNW 337°140 m17.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5918:3119:07
June solstice05:2419:4920:31
September equinox06:4318:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4716:31

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F343642536373787770584839
Precip in3.73.24.43.94.14.64.44.84.64.13.44.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bronx, 8 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

National Register of Historic Places, reference 86001387OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata
  • National Register of Historic Places — Dodge, Thomas, Homestead, reference 86001387, listed 06/26/86.

OpenStreetMap element way/769771231

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