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Buffalo Wildlife Management Area

Buffalo Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Buffalo Wildlife Management Area is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 120 m. Hagers Mountain stands 210 m to the southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Buffalo Public Use Area, a park 1.2 miles away. Lafayette's Tour passes 27 miles off. 73 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
120 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.67597, -78.64473

73 named places within 25 miles

Museums: 6
  • Prestwould Plantation: 4.8 mi
  • Clarksville Regional Museum: 5.9 mi
  • South Boston - Halifax County Museum: 14.9 mi
  • L. E. Coleman African-American Museum: 19.1 mi
  • Noland Village at Providence: 20.5 mi
Historic sites: 6
  • Mecklenburg County Veterans Memorial: 5.8 mi
  • Thyne Institute Memorial: 13.6 mi
  • Blue Star Memorial: 14.2 mi
  • Earthwork Fortification: 14.5 mi
  • Artillery Emplacement: 14.7 mi
Gardens: 3
  • Occoneechee Plantation Terrace Gardens: 7.1 mi
  • Seven Oaks Gardens: 12.9 mi
  • Mulberry Hill Historic Gardens: 16.3 mi
Peaks: 3
  • Ivy Hill: 13.2 mi
  • Bethel Hill: 18.5 mi
  • Hagers Mountain: 23.2 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Osage Picnic Shelter: 19.5 mi
  • Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
  • Picnic Shelter: 19.8 mi
Attractions: 2
  • Solitary Sentinel: 7.1 mi
  • Joseph S. J. Tanner Environmental Education Center: 19.7 mi
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Buffalo Wildlife Management Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hagers MountainSW 231°210 m23.2 mi
Bethel HillSW 232°192 m18.5 mi
Ivy HillESE 117°120 m13.2 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1918:5319:27
June solstice05:5719:5920:37
September equinox07:0318:3919:13
December solstice07:2416:2317:03

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394250596775807872605043
Precip in3.32.93.93.54.65.24.43.34.83.83.23.6

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

  • Great Egret15 obs
  • Fowler's Toad14 obs
  • buttonbush13 obs
  • Virginia Dayflower8 obs
  • Wolf Dusky Salamander8 obs
  • Black Vulture7 obs
  • Great Blue Heron7 obs
  • Bald Eagle7 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/356587492

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