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Alma City Park

Alma City Park from directly overhead

Alma City Park is a park in Nebraska, at a modelled elevation of 603 m. Sappa Peak stands 680 m to the west, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Alma Vista Picnic Area, a park 1.4 miles away. Heritage Highway passes 0.4 miles off. 42 named places lie within 25 miles, 4 of them named summits.

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Coordinates40.09852, -99.36909

0.4 mi off the Heritage Highway

Around it

42 named places within 25 miles

Parks19

Alma Vista Picnic Area: 1.4 mi
Harlan County Lake Recreation Area: 4.2 mi
Cedar Run ATV Trail: 9.2 mi
Pioneer Crossing Historical Marker: 14.5 mi
Republican River Flood of 1935 Historical Marker: 18.3 mi

Nature reserves14

Harlan County Recreation Area: 2.2 mi
South Sacramento State Wildlife Management Area: 16.8 mi
West Sacramento State Wildlife Management Area: 18.8 mi
Quadhamer Federal Waterfowl Protection Area: 20.2 mi
Jones Waterfowl Production Area: 20.3 mi

Peaks4

Indian Hill: 6.3 mi
Sappa Peak: 8.8 mi
Blue Mound: 21.4 mi
Lookout Mountain: 24.9 mi

Historic sites2

Franklin County Veterans Memorial: 22.0 mi
Veterans Memorial: 23.8 mi

Museums2

Franklin County Museum: 22.1 mi
Fort Bissell Museum: 23.8 mi

Ghost towns1

Smoky Hill City: 24.5 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Alma City Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Sappa Peak	W 260°	680 m	8.8 mi
Blue Mound	SE 146°	629 m	21.4 mi
Indian Hill	SE 130°	627 m	6.3 mi
Lookout Mountain	E 99°	624 m	24.9 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:42	19:14	19:50
June solstice	06:09	20:30	21:11
September equinox	07:26	19:01	19:36
December solstice	07:57	16:33	17:16

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	27	31	41	51	61	72	78	75	67	54	40	30
Precip in	0.4	0.5	1.3	2.4	4.1	3.6	4.1	3.2	1.6	1.9	0.8	0.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Harlan CO Lake, 8 mi away.

Wildlife nearby

Orchard Oriole2 obs
Franklin's Gull2 obs
Belted Kingfisher1 obs
American White Pelican1 obs
Lesser Black-backed Gull1 obs
Peregrine Falcon1 obs
American Avocet1 obs
Black-bellied Plover1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/445854819

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