Nature reserve · Iowa

Plantation Wildlife Area

Plantation Wildlife Area from directly overhead

Plantation Wildlife Area is a nature reserve in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 378 m. The nearest named place is Wittemore Land, a nature reserve 2.3 miles away.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 378 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates43.08845, -94.44375

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

Wittemore Land: 2.3 mi
Sportsman Recreation Area: 5.9 mi
Stinson Prairie State Park: 6.5 mi
West Fork Wildlife Area: 7.2 mi
Robert Mulrony Recreation Wildlife Area: 8.3 mi

Parks31

Siems Park: 3.2 mi
Cylinder City Park: 5.3 mi
Fenton City Park: 8.8 mi
Blackford Park: 10.0 mi
Maple Park: 10.2 mi

Museums12

Cylinder Heritage Museum: 5.4 mi
West Bend Historical Society Museum: 8.9 mi
Camp Algona POW Museum: 10.5 mi
Kossuth County Historical Museum: 10.5 mi
Lone Rock Historical Depot & Museum: 10.8 mi

Attractions5

Grotto of the Redemption: 8.6 mi
Lone Rock: 10.8 mi
Wild Rose Casino and Resort: 11.1 mi
Emmet County Nature Center: 20.0 mi
Lu Verne City Jail: 21.9 mi

Ghost towns3

Plum Creek: 12.5 mi
Sexton: 17.9 mi
Rubens: 20.9 mi

Historic sites2

Robert Emmet Statue: 11.9 mi
MIA-POW Display: 22.9 mi

Artworks1

Kossuth Lajos: 10.4 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:22	18:53	19:30
June solstice	05:39	20:18	21:01
September equinox	07:06	18:39	19:17
December solstice	07:47	16:00	16:46

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	15	20	33	46	59	69	72	70	63	50	34	22
Precip in	0.9	1.0	1.9	3.4	4.7	5.5	4.1	4.3	3.3	2.4	1.5	1.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Algona, 11 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1034900847

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