Watts Museum
Watts Museum is a museum in West Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 339 m. Devies Mountain stands 839 m to the east-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Nath Sculpture Garden, a park 0.2 miles away. Old Route 7 Byway passes 3.6 miles off. 42 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Royce J. and Caroline B. Watts Museum (commonly known as Watts Museum) is a university museum on the Evansdale campus of West Virginia University, in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. Originally named the COMER Museum for West Virginia University's College of Mineral and Energy Resources (COMER, 1930–1995), the Watts Museum was renamed in 2005 at the request of the West Virginia Coal Mining Institute (WVCMI).
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Dates from 1986.
Wikidata Q16981910, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 3.6 mi off the Old Route 7 Byway
- 19.2 mi off the Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway
- 20.6 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
- 20.8 mi off the Cheat River Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Point Lookout · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Nath Sculpture Garden: 0.2 mi
- Krepps Park: 0.4 mi
- Raymond J. Lane Park: 0.6 mi
- Westover Baseball Fields: 0.7 mi
- Mascioli Park: 0.8 mi
- Grapevine Hill: 2.0 mi
- Chisler Knob: 3.2 mi
- Dorsey Knob: 3.5 mi
- Price Hill: 3.6 mi
- Higgins Knob: 4.3 mi
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
- Monongalia County War Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Farm House Ruins: 8.3 mi
- Metal Shack: 8.4 mi
- Border Heroine: 8.9 mi
- Mon Valley Railroad Historical Society: 2.9 mi
- Albert Gallatin House: 9.2 mi
- Marion County Historical Society: 14.4 mi
- Telephone Museum: 14.4 mi
- Frank and Jane Gabor West Virginia Folklife Center: 15.2 mi
- Core Arboretum: 0.3 mi
- Falling Run Greenspace: 1.6 mi
- LIttle Indian Creek Wildlife Managment ARea: 5.7 mi
- Tom's Run Nature Preserve: 6.6 mi
- Little Indian Creek Wildlife Management Area: 6.7 mi
- Climbing and Rappelling: 7.3 mi
- Climbing: 7.5 mi
- Climbing: 7.7 mi
- Riverside Spot: 7.7 mi
- Sophia's Grave: 9.0 mi
- From The Mountain: 0.6 mi
- Don Knotts: 1.5 mi
- Albert Gallatin Statue: 9.3 mi
- Metal Sculpture: 21.4 mi
- Statue of Thomas Jefferson and Albert Gallatin: 22.0 mi
- The Cliff: 15.0 mi
- White Rocks: 18.9 mi
- Cabin Rocks: 20.6 mi
- Jumonville Rocks: 23.8 mi
- Jumonville Glen: 23.9 mi
- Little Falls: 6.7 mi
- Matador Falls: 12.0 mi
- Watering Trough: 22.1 mi
- Cool Spring: 24.3 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Watts Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devies Mountain | ENE 65° | 839 m | 14.1 mi |
| Fulton Knob | NE 49° | 804 m | 23.5 mi |
| Mount Phoebe | SE 134° | 715 m | 15.8 mi |
| Kelley Knob | E 94° | 712 m | 21.9 mi |
| Reed Hill | ESE 102° | 675 m | 8.4 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSE 156° | 656 m | 10.0 mi |
| Pine Knob | NE 46° | 652 m | 21.1 mi |
| Hager Hill | ENE 62° | 630 m | 23.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:57 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:11 | 20:52 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:19 |
| December solstice | 07:38 | 16:17 | 17:00 |
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 | 30 | 32 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 69 | 73 | 72 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.0 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Morgantown L&D, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/5608437085
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