Little Creek Wildlife Area - Tarburton Tract
Little Creek Wildlife Area - Tarburton Tract is a nature reserve in Delaware, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Coffin Hill stands 31 m to the north, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is T-33A Shooting Star, a attraction 4.3 miles away. Delaware Bayshore Byway passes 14 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- DE Division of Fish & Wildlife
How to reach it
- 14.3 mi off the Delaware Bayshore Byway, National
- 14.2 mi off the Bayshore Heritage Byway, National
- 19.5 mi off the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway, National
- 24.8 mi off the Pine Barrens Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Dover Park: 4.3 mi
- Kent County Veterans Memorial Park: 4.5 mi
- Williams Park: 4.8 mi
- Liberty Park: 5.0 mi
- Memorial Park: 5.1 mi
- T-33A Shooting Star: 4.3 mi
- C-9A Nightingale: 4.3 mi
- C-47A Skytrain: 4.3 mi
- BT-13 Valiant: 4.3 mi
- HH-43B Huskie: 4.3 mi
- Saint Jones River Corridor: 5.0 mi
- Saint Jones River Corridor: 5.1 mi
- Capital Green/Pauls Property: 5.2 mi
- Hunn Conservation Area: 5.4 mi
- Ted Harvey Conservation Area - Roberts Tract: 5.7 mi
- Kent County Veterans Monument: 4.5 mi
- Bayonets of the Revolution: 5.1 mi
- Fireman's Memorial: 5.2 mi
- Liberty Bell Replica: 5.3 mi
- World War II Headquarters Building: 7.4 mi
- Air Mobility Command Museum: 4.3 mi
- Hangar 1301: 4.3 mi
- Air Mobility Command Museum: 4.3 mi
- Woodburn: Governor's House: 5.3 mi
- Biggs Museum of American Art: 5.3 mi
- Miah Maull Shoal Light: 12.1 mi
- Fourteen Foot Bank Light: 19.6 mi
- Brandywine Shoal Light: 21.3 mi
- East Point Lighthouse: 21.4 mi
- Fortescue Beach: 14.1 mi
- Slaughter Beach: 18.6 mi
- Thompsons Beach: 23.1 mi
- Pine Mount: 17.4 mi
- Ceremony Hill: 18.0 mi
- Coffin Hill: 22.0 mi
- Delaware Highway Memorial Garden: 14.5 mi
- Senior Center Meditation Garden: 18.1 mi
- Chauncey O. Simpson Memorial Rest Area: 14.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Little Creek Wildlife Area - Tarburton Tract. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coffin Hill | N 9° | 31 m | 22.0 mi |
| Pine Mount | NNE 16° | 28 m | 17.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:52 | 20:32 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 16:00 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 36 | 38 | 45 | 56 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 59 | 49 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.1 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dover, 5 mi away.
- Osprey148 obs
- Great Black-backed Gull105 obs
- Atlantic Horseshoe Crab102 obs
- Diamondback Terrapin96 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant90 obs
- American Herring Gull67 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird56 obs
- Bald Eagle55 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/931228967
Day trips start here
- Dover · 5 mi
- Camden · 8 mi
- Magnolia · 8 mi
- Cumberland County · 19 mi
- Salem County · 28 mi
- Denton · 29 mi
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