Nature reserve · Iowa

Chipera Prairie

Chipera Prairie from directly overhead

Chipera Prairie is a nature reserve in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 352 m. Steamboat Rock stands 350 m to the north-northwest, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Fort Atkinson State Preserve, a park 3.5 miles away. River Bluffs Scenic Byway passes 13 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 352 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.13013, -92.00729

12.7 mi off the River Bluffs Scenic Byway
22.3 mi off the Driftless Area Scenic Byway

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Fort Atkinson State Preserve: 3.5 mi
Saint James Lutheran Church State Preserve: 3.7 mi
Fort Atkinson City Park: 4.1 mi
Sluggo's Pond Park: 5.3 mi
Riverside Park: 5.7 mi

Nature reserves

Museums13

Bily Clocks Museum: 5.7 mi
German American Museum, Library and Family History Center: 5.8 mi
Jackson Number Twelve School Museum: 10.3 mi
Fayette County Historical Museum;Fayette County Historical Library: 15.5 mi
Carnegie Culture Center: 16.2 mi

Historic sites9

Martin Luther at Worms: 16.1 mi
Pioneer Memorial: 16.1 mi
Luther Bell: 16.2 mi
3-D Life Tree: 16.2 mi
Meridian II: 16.2 mi

Ghost towns2

Conover: 8.1 mi
Donnan: 17.4 mi

Springs2

Malanaphy Springs: 17.8 mi
Cold Water Spring: 21.7 mi

Peaks1

Steamboat Rock: 15.4 mi

Cliffs1

Pulpit Rock: 15.5 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Chipera Prairie. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Steamboat Rock	NNW 341°	350 m	15.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:12	18:43	19:20
June solstice	05:29	20:08	20:52
September equinox	06:56	18:30	19:07
December solstice	07:37	15:50	16:36

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	19	23	36	49	61	70	74	72	64	52	38	25
Precip in	1.0	1.1	2.1	3.9	4.9	6.1	4.4	4.4	3.6	2.7	2.0	1.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Decorah, 16 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/969608153

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