Mile Long Island Wildlife Management Area
Mile Long Island Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 326 m. Blackbird Hill stands 426 m to the south-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Weedland Access, a nature reserve 1.7 miles away. Loess Hills Scenic Byway passes 4.6 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 326 m
How to reach it
- 4.6 mi off the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, National
- 3.4 mi off the Lewis & Clark Scenic Byway
- 7.7 mi off the Outlaw Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Mount Lucia · 14 mi
- Gobbler Point · 14 mi
- Kestrel Point · 15 mi
- Bobsled Run · 15 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Tonwantonga Historical Marker: 4.0 mi
- Bigelow County Park: 4.3 mi
- Jewel Park: 4.4 mi
- Bishop Field: 5.0 mi
- Snyder Bend Park: 5.0 mi
- Weedland Access: 1.7 mi
- Dakota Bend Wildlife Management Area: 2.2 mi
- Brown's Lake Wildlife Management Area: 4.1 mi
- Snyder Bend Wildlife Management Area: 5.2 mi
- Baker Park: 5.4 mi
- Dakota City: 5.8 mi
- First Bride's Grave: 8.3 mi
- First Bride's Grave: 8.3 mi
- Sergeant Floyd Monument: 8.6 mi
- Siouxland Freedom Park: 9.2 mi
- O'Connor House Museum Complex: 4.1 mi
- Sergeant Bluff City Hall: 5.0 mi
- Mid America Air Museum: 5.3 mi
- Betty Strong Encounter Center: 10.5 mi
- Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center: 10.5 mi
- This Is Sioux CIty: 10.7 mi
- Abraham Lincoln Statue: 12.2 mi
- Harp: 17.2 mi
- Towers of Time: 23.6 mi
- Tree Shelter: 23.9 mi
- Sea Ray Sandbar: 17.1 mi
- West Side Sea Ray Sandbar: 17.3 mi
- West Sea Ray Sandbar: 17.3 mi
- Old Town: 20.0 mi
- Train: 20.1 mi
- Stevens: 14.0 mi
- Dodds: 14.9 mi
- Peiro: 21.4 mi
- Lucky Valley: 23.8 mi
- Dale G Bell Memorial Arboretum: 4.1 mi
- Dale Street Community Garden: 11.6 mi
- The Sacred Hoop Prayer Garden: 24.4 mi
- Dakota Point: 15.3 mi
- Blackbird Hill: 18.7 mi
- Lookout Hill: 24.0 mi
- Sergeant Bluff: 4.9 mi
- Picnic Area: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mile Long Island Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackbird Hill | SSE 164° | 426 m | 18.7 mi |
| Lookout Hill | NW 319° | 411 m | 24.0 mi |
| Dakota Point | NNW 346° | 394 m | 15.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:30 | 19:01 | 19:38 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:24 | 21:07 |
| September equinox | 07:14 | 18:48 | 19:25 |
| December solstice | 07:52 | 16:11 | 16:57 |
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 | 20 | 25 | 37 | 49 | 61 | 71 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 50 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 4.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sioux City AP, 4 mi away.
- Smooth Brome1 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1035834734
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