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Clear Lake Rearing Ponds Wildlife Management Area

Clear Lake Rearing Ponds Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Clear Lake Rearing Ponds Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 362 m. Pilot Knob stands 443 m to the northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Fieldstone Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Great River Road passes 103 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
362 m

How to reach it

Coordinates43.16002, -93.36915

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Fieldstone Park: 0.8 mi
  • Clear Lake Municipal Tennis Courts: 1.4 mi
  • Molly McGowan Park: 1.4 mi
  • Marion Park: 1.5 mi
  • Triangle Park: 1.5 mi
Nature reserves
Museums: 16
  • Clear Lake Fire Museum: 1.6 mi
  • Kinney Pioneer Museum: 1.7 mi
  • Charles H MacNider Museum: 8.8 mi
  • Lime Creek Nature Center: 9.0 mi
  • Manly Junction Railroad Museum: 12.1 mi
Historic sites: 14
  • World Trade Center Steel Memorial: 1.5 mi
  • National Register of Historic Places: 1.8 mi
  • Three Stars Monument: 1.8 mi
  • Buddy Holly Glasses: 4.2 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial: 8.4 mi
Beaches: 4
Artworks: 2
Attractions: 2
  • The Music Man Square: 8.6 mi
  • Rancho Deluxe: 8.9 mi
Gardens: 1
  • Central Gardens of North Iowa: 1.5 mi
Peaks: 1
  • Pilot Knob: 11.2 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Iowa Welcome Center: 19.7 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Clear Lake Rearing Ponds Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Pilot KnobNW 305°443 m11.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1818:4819:26
June solstice05:3520:1420:57
September equinox07:0118:3519:13
December solstice07:4315:5516:42

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F162033465869726961483422
Precip in0.91.22.34.15.15.44.43.83.42.51.71.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mason City Muni AP, 2 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/969257557

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