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Half-Way Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Half-Way Lake National Wildlife Refuge from directly overhead

Half-Way Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a nature reserve in North Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 532 m. Streeter Moraine stands 693 m to the south, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Cleveland Public Park, a park 8.7 miles away. 29 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
532 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.84196, -99.28975
Around it

29 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 11
  • Cleveland Public Park: 8.7 mi
  • Lake George National Wildlife Refuge: 12.4 mi
  • Streeter Memorial State Park: 12.6 mi
  • Stokes Memorial Park: 13.1 mi
  • Chase Lake State Game Management Area: 15.1 mi
Nature reserves: 11
Peaks: 7
  • Terpena Hill: 8.9 mi
  • Mount Pleasant: 11.1 mi
  • McPhail Butte: 19.2 mi
  • Buffalo Hill: 20.4 mi
  • Cactus Point: 21.2 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Half-Way Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Streeter MoraineS 182°693 m23.6 mi
Buffalo HillSSE 164°652 m20.4 mi
Cactus PointS 171°642 m21.2 mi
Terpena HillENE 63°592 m8.9 mi
McPhail ButteWNW 300°587 m19.2 mi
Round TopNNE 31°587 m23.2 mi
Mount PleasantESE 108°580 m11.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4119:1019:50
June solstice05:4420:4921:36
September equinox07:2518:5719:37
December solstice08:2016:0016:52

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F91326405363696758432815
Precip in0.50.50.91.42.93.73.32.42.31.70.60.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jamestown 38 WSW, 10 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Plains Forktail3 obs
  • Alkali Bluet1 obs
  • Fathead Minnow1 obs
  • Spruce Budworm Moth1 obs
  • Little Virgin Tiger Moth1 obs

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

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/457716005

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