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Greenvale State Wildlife Management Area

Greenvale State Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Greenvale State Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Nebraska, at a modelled elevation of 495 m. Council Hill stands 567 m to the southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Stony Butte, a peak 8.3 miles away. Outlaw Trail passes 16 miles off. 41 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.

How to reach it

Coordinates42.54170, -98.21554

41 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 23
Nature reserves: 10
  • Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park: 8.7 mi
  • Bohemia Prairie Wildlife Management Area: 10.4 mi
  • John Emerson Wildlife Management Area: 10.5 mi
  • John Emerson Wildlife Management Area: 11.0 mi
  • Grove Lake State Wildlife Management Area: 12.4 mi
Peaks: 3
Artworks: 2
Museums: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Council HillSE 125°567 m14.2 mi
Stony ButteN 2°515 m8.3 mi
Maidens LeapNE 42°394 m20.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3719:0819:45
June solstice05:5620:3221:15
September equinox07:2118:5519:32
December solstice08:0016:1817:03

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212435475969757264493524
Precip in0.50.71.53.13.93.93.83.32.72.71.00.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Verdel 6sse, 12 mi away.

  • Red Milkweed Beetle2 obs
  • Reversed Haploa Moth2 obs
  • purple meadow-rue2 obs
  • Eastern Red Bat1 obs
  • common milkweed1 obs
  • Convergent Lady Beetle1 obs
  • bur oak1 obs
  • hemp dogbane1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/660587536

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