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Jones-Keeney Wildlife Management Area

Jones-Keeney Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Jones-Keeney Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Kentucky, at a recorded elevation of 137 m. Buie Knob stands 242 m to the south-southeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Hunter Bluff, a cliff 0.8 miles away. US 68 Scenic Byway passes 17 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
137 m

How to reach it

Coordinates37.13204, -87.76114

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Flat Knob: 2.5 mi
  • Orange Hill: 2.6 mi
  • Carter Hill: 3.4 mi
  • Pine Knob: 3.7 mi
  • Bald Knob: 4.4 mi
Parks: 41
  • Riverside Park: 3.9 mi
  • Veterans Park: 4.5 mi
  • Tradewater Park: 4.9 mi
  • Dawson Springs City Park: 5.0 mi
  • Princeton City Park: 5.6 mi
Cliffs: 32
Historic sites: 6
Museums: 3
  • Dawson Springs Museum & Art: 4.5 mi
  • Adsmore Museum: 6.8 mi
  • Ben E Clement Mineral Museum: 22.4 mi
Picnic sites: 3
Nature reserves: 1
Attractions: 1
  • Center Furnace Trail: 22.2 mi
Springs: 1
  • Garnett Spring: 24.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.1 miles of Jones-Keeney Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Buie KnobSSE 159°242 m13.4 mi
Bald KnobSSW 200°233 m4.4 mi
Nelson HillWNW 288°232 m13.7 mi
Flat KnobESE 121°223 m2.5 mi
Buffalo KnobSSE 166°217 m15.0 mi
The KnobWNW 286°216 m13.8 mi
Felker HillNW 308°212 m15.1 mi
Carner HillWNW 283°211 m8.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2919:03
June solstice05:3219:3620:15
September equinox06:4018:1518:50
December solstice07:0215:5716:38

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F374149596775797771604940
Precip in3.74.14.75.14.84.54.53.53.34.14.14.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Princeton 1 SE, 6 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/849973909

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