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Water Supply Area

Water Supply Area from directly overhead

Water Supply Area is a nature reserve in Massachusetts, at a modelled elevation of 71 m. Mount Lincoln stands 375 m to the north-northeast, 3.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Water Supply Land, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Lost Villages Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off.

What the record says

Built
1989

How to reach it

Coordinates42.32535, -72.45086

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Lake Vale Cemetery: 1.7 mi
  • South Amherst Common: 3.0 mi
  • Austin Gaughan Memorial Field: 3.1 mi
  • Town Common: 4.0 mi
  • Groff Park: 4.1 mi
Peaks
  • West Hill: 1.8 mi
  • Pond Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Long Mountain: 2.0 mi
  • Grey Rocks: 2.6 mi
  • Mount Pollux: 2.6 mi
Historic sites
  • DonaldCurtis Workshop: 3.7 mi
  • Amethyst Brook Labryinth: 4.0 mi
  • Classic Car Junkyard: 4.4 mi
  • Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 4.8 mi
  • Guy Levy-Despas Monument: 4.8 mi
Attractions: 59
  • War Memorial Pool: 5.0 mi
  • Timber Frame: 6.5 mi
  • Holyoke Merry-Go-Round: 11.6 mi
  • Indian Kitchen: 12.1 mi
  • F-94 Starfire Crash Site: 12.3 mi
Museums: 52
Gardens: 37
Artworks: 30
Cliffs: 19
Beaches: 13
Ghost towns: 4
Waterfalls: 4
  • Bear's Den Falls: 16.3 mi
  • Hobo Falls: 23.5 mi
  • Cascade: 24.7 mi
  • Goldmine Brook Falls: 24.9 mi
Springs: 3
  • Rd: 13.8 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 13.9 mi
  • Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 13.9 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Szot Park Picnic Grove: 14.5 mi
  • Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 21.3 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.0 miles of Water Supply Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount LincolnNNE 28°375 m3.0 mi
Pine HillNNE 29°371 m4.9 mi
East HillENE 77°338 m3.0 mi
Mount NorwottockWSW 246°337 m3.4 mi
Prescott HillNE 43°336 m7.5 mi
Mount PleasantNE 45°335 m8.0 mi
Juckett HillE 92°327 m3.7 mi
West HillNE 51°324 m1.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5418:2519:02
June solstice05:1419:4820:31
September equinox06:3818:1218:49
December solstice07:1615:3516:21

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242635465867727062503930
Precip in3.42.93.53.83.74.54.14.14.64.73.43.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Amherst, 6 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/29856452

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