Ashland Square
Ashland Square is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 272 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Chelsea Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Cliff Drive passes 2.1 miles off. 11 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 272 m
How to reach it
- 2.1 mi off the Cliff Drive
- 2.3 mi off the Spirit of Kansas City
- 14.0 mi off the Frontier Military Historic Byway
- 23.9 mi off the Old Trails Road
Overlooks nearby
- Scarrit Point · 2 mi
- Kaw Point · 5 mi
- Bird Watching Blind · 22 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Chelsea Park: 0.6 mi
- Van Brunt Park: 0.7 mi
- Indiana Park: 0.7 mi
- Montgall Playground: 0.9 mi
- Cypress Park: 0.9 mi
- Jacob Loose Mausoleum: 0.7 mi
- Leon M. Jordan: 1.5 mi
- Historical Marker: 1.7 mi
- Kansas City Workhouse: 1.7 mi
- Charlie Parker Memorial: 1.8 mi
- Black Archives Of Mid-America: 1.7 mi
- Negro Leagues Baseball Museum: 1.8 mi
- American Jazz Museum: 1.8 mi
- The Museum of Kansas City: 2.2 mi
- Museum of BBQ: 2.8 mi
- American Jazz Walk of Fame: 1.8 mi
- Pedestal Mounted Traffic Light: 2.2 mi
- Hallmark Visitors Center: 2.7 mi
- Breakout KC: 3.4 mi
- Emus: 5.2 mi
- Constrained Chaos: 2.1 mi
- Buttons and Bovine: 2.2 mi
- Art Alley: 2.5 mi
- Sending Love: 2.6 mi
- Bringing the Pieces Together: 2.6 mi
- Kansas City University Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- Pendleton Heights Community Garden: 2.2 mi
- The Q Garden;Quilombo: 2.3 mi
- Children's Mercy Community Garden: 2.6 mi
- Manheim Gardens: 3.2 mi
- Heartland Overlook Preserve: 8.9 mi
- Green Hills of Platte Wildlife Preserve: 9.2 mi
- Northwood Park: 9.6 mi
- River Bluff Nature Reserve: 9.8 mi
- Liberty Bend Conservation Area: 10.2 mi
- Arsenal Hill: 10.3 mi
- Nebo Hill: 12.8 mi
- Bowler Hill: 15.5 mi
- Overland Park: 16.8 mi
- Overland Park: 16.8 mi
- Line Creek Double Falls: 9.1 mi
- Turkey Creek Falls: 9.2 mi
- Angel Falls: 23.5 mi
- Cedar Lake Falls: 23.7 mi
- Tryst Falls: 24.2 mi
- Quindaro Townsite: 8.5 mi
- Delaware City: 19.8 mi
- Family Picnic Area: 9.3 mi
- Watts Mill: 10.7 mi
- Swimming Beach: 11.6 mi
- Little Platte Swim Beach: 22.3 mi
- Pioneer Spring: 6.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Ashland Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Hill | SSE 166° | 342 m | 21.6 mi |
| Bowler Hill | SSE 152° | 330 m | 15.5 mi |
| Rattlesnake Hill | ESE 116° | 306 m | 22.4 mi |
| Nebo Hill | NE 47° | 291 m | 12.8 mi |
| Monkey Mountain | ESE 106° | 289 m | 19.5 mi |
| Minter Hill | ESE 109° | 288 m | 17.2 mi |
| Sni-A-Bar Point | ESE 105° | 286 m | 19.4 mi |
| Bone Hill | E 86° | 282 m | 21.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:17 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 36 | 46 | 57 | 67 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 71 | 58 | 45 | 35 |
| Precip in | 1.0 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 3.9 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 3.8 | 3.2 | 1.8 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kansas City Dwtn AP, 4 mi away.
- Differential Grasshopper11 obs
- Amur honeysuckle11 obs
- tree-of-heaven9 obs
- chicory8 obs
- fortune's spindle8 obs
- ground-ivy7 obs
- poison hemlock6 obs
- giant ragweed6 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/179173592
Day trips start here
- Kansas City · 3 mi
- Kansas City Area · 3 mi
- Independence · 6 mi
- Kansas City · 6 mi
- Overland Park · 10 mi
- Lee's Summit · 14 mi
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