Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area
Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area is a nature reserve in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 229 m. Turtle Mound stands 218 m to the northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Potowatomi Forest Preserve, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Lincoln Highway passes 11 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources
How to reach it
- 11.3 mi off the Lincoln Highway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Potowatomi Forest Preserve: 0.4 mi
- MacQueen Forest Preserve: 0.7 mi
- The Prairie at Walnut Grove: 2.3 mi
- Conservation Corridor: 3.8 mi
- Prairie Oaks Forest Preserve: 4.0 mi
- Kingston Township East Park: 5.8 mi
- Monroe Center park: 6.7 mi
- Flora Prairie Nature Preserve: 6.9 mi
- Flora Prairie Nature Preserve: 6.9 mi
- Wilkinson - Renwick Marsh Nature Preserve: 7.7 mi
- Denny's Corn Crib: 8.1 mi
- Rehn Farming Museum: 8.1 mi
- Kishwaukee Valley Heritage Museum: 8.8 mi
- Boone County Historical Museum: 11.0 mi
- The Funderburg House: 11.4 mi
- Flowers: 8.9 mi
- HIV Awareness Statue: 12.7 mi
- The Elephant: 12.7 mi
- The Missing Piece: 12.7 mi
- Ingrid Dohm Studio: 13.4 mi
- MLK Commons: 12.6 mi
- The Farmette Grangette: 13.4 mi
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Laurent House: 15.9 mi
- Klehm Arboretum & Botanic Gardens: 15.9 mi
- Labyrinth: 16.2 mi
- First School House Hooser's Grove 1845: 8.6 mi
- Frank Lloyd Wright Memorial: 11.8 mi
- Civil War Monument: 12.2 mi
- February 14th, 2008 Shooting Memorial: 12.6 mi
- LZ Peace Memorial: 13.9 mi
- Heritage Gardens: 13.7 mi
- La Paloma Gardens: 15.7 mi
- La Paloma Gardens: 15.8 mi
- Fountain Garden: 16.0 mi
- Children's Garden: 16.0 mi
- Brush Point: 7.8 mi
- Reeds Crossing: 7.9 mi
- Coltonville: 11.2 mi
- Lookout Point: 16.1 mi
- Turtle Mound: 16.5 mi
- Pine Rock: 21.0 mi
- Belvidere Oasis: 9.4 mi
- DeKalb Oasis: 15.3 mi
- Sandstone Wall: 11.4 mi
- White Rock: 15.5 mi
- Standfield Beach: 17.4 mi
- Olson Beach: 18.1 mi
- East Waterfall - O Taki: 16.2 mi
- Ganymede Spring: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Kishwaukee River State Fish and Wildlife Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turtle Mound | NW 317° | 218 m | 16.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:31 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:53 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:18 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 15:42 | 16:27 |
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 | 21 | 25 | 36 | 48 | 60 | 70 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 38 | 26 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.7 | 2.2 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — DE Kalb, 13 mi away.
- Golden-eye Lichen38 obs
- prairie trillium33 obs
- wild geranium26 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty26 obs
- eastern shooting star24 obs
- blue phlox22 obs
- rue anemone21 obs
- mayapple20 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.
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