Skillet Creek Indian Mounds Wildlife Management Area
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- Elevation, modelled
- 284 m
- Tallest summit within 25 miles
- Pilot Mound362.7 m · 7.2 mi
- Nearest byway
- Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway14.4 mi off
- Sunset, June solstice
- 20:57local time
- Coordinates
- 42.2579, -94.0015
Skillet Creek Indian Mounds Wildlife Management Area is a nature reserve in Iowa, at a modelled 284 m. Pilot Mound stands 363 m to the south, 7.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Carlson Recreation Area, a nature reserve 1.8 miles away. Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway passes 14 miles off.
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Skillet Creek Indian Mounds Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot Mound | S 183° | 362.7 m | 7.2 mi |
- 14.4 mi off the Lincoln Highway Heritage BywayNational
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Oak Park: 3.4 mi
- Lake Ole Park: 3.5 mi
- Bells Mill Park: 8.0 mi
- Don Williams Park: 9.8 mi
- Tunnel Mills Access: 10.1 mi
- Carlson Recreation Area: 1.8 mi
- Rohades Acres: 4.1 mi
- Deception Hollow Wildlife Management Area: 4.9 mi
- Lost Acres WIldlife Management Area: 5.1 mi
- Pilot Mound State Forest: 7.2 mi
- Freedom Rock: 19.8 mi
- Entrance Memorial: 21.7 mi
- South Entrance Monument: 21.8 mi
- Barbara’s Portal: 22.1 mi
- Into the Maelstrom: 22.7 mi
- Founders Rock: 9.9 mi
- Hutton Memorial: 19.1 mi
- Plains Overlook: 22.6 mi
- Medicine Wheel: 22.6 mi
- Skunk River Overlook: 22.8 mi
- Vintage Iron Antiques Museum: 3.9 mi
- Hickory Grove Rural School Museum: 10.0 mi
- Webster County Museum: 13.7 mi
- Railroad Museum: 14.4 mi
- Gowrie Depot Historical Museum: 14.8 mi
- "Twister Hill": 6.7 mi
- Copperas Beds: 9.8 mi
- Boneyard Hollow: 10.4 mi
- Rail Explorers: Boone, IA: 14.4 mi
- Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad: 14.4 mi
- Delaware Avenue Community Gardens: 22.8 mi
- Children's Garden: 23.2 mi
- Pilot Mound: 7.2 mi
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:51 | 19:28 |
| June solstice | 05:40 | 20:14 | 20:57 |
| September equinox | 07:04 | 18:38 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:02 | 16:47 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 23 | 36 | 48 | 60 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 51 | 37 | 25 |
| Precip in | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.3 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 1.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Boone, 16 mi away.
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