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Camp Butner Wildlife Management Area

Camp Butner Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Camp Butner Wildlife Management Area is a park in North Carolina, at a recorded elevation of 120 m. Occoneechee Mountain stands 261 m to the west-southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Roberts Chapel Conservation Area, a nature reserve 1.7 miles away. North Durham Country Byway passes 2.4 miles off. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
120 m
Getting there

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Coordinates36.20848, -78.79139

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Lake Michie Boating Area: 4.4 mi
  • Lake Michie - Duke University Rowing: 4.5 mi
  • Lake Michie Overlook Park: 4.5 mi
  • Wilkins Road Picnic Area: 4.6 mi
  • Wilkins Road Park: 4.6 mi
Attractions: 39
Nature reserves: 29
Historic sites: 24
  • Castle Mont Rouge: 7.1 mi
  • Durham Pump Station: 13.9 mi
  • Abandoned Tobacco Barn and Homestead: 15.4 mi
  • Turtle: 15.6 mi
  • Cardinal: 15.6 mi
Gardens: 21
  • Hub Farm: 10.8 mi
  • Memorial Garden: 14.9 mi
  • Wild Hearts Garden & Park: 15.3 mi
  • Peace Garden: 15.4 mi
  • Grace Garden: 15.6 mi
Artworks: 21
  • Belmont Dragon: 14.7 mi
  • Sundial: 15.0 mi
  • Globe Sculpture: 15.0 mi
  • Pyramid Sculpture: 15.1 mi
  • B.N. Duke: 15.4 mi
Peaks: 19
  • Glenns Mountain: 7.1 mi
  • Red Mountain: 7.2 mi
  • Huckleberry Hill: 15.0 mi
  • Couch Mountain: 17.4 mi
  • Poplar Ridge: 18.6 mi
Museums: 12
  • Stagville State Historic Site: 6.6 mi
  • Boars Nest a Dukes of Hazzard Museum: 6.7 mi
  • Hugh Mangum Museum of Photography: 11.7 mi
  • Museum of Life and Science: 13.8 mi
  • Duke Homestead Tobacco Museum: 14.0 mi
Cliffs: 4
Rest areas: 2
Picnic sites: 2
  • Picnic Pavillion: 22.3 mi
  • Youth camp tables, fire pit, wood storage: 23.3 mi
Springs: 1
  • Ye Olde Valley Spring: 14.3 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Bobbit's Hole: 15.5 mi
Waterfalls: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Occoneechee MountainWSW 241°261 m21.0 mi
Glenns MountainWNW 301°244 m7.1 mi
Red MountainWNW 288°243 m7.2 mi
Brown Elfin KnobWSW 241°234 m20.6 mi
Bald MountainSW 228°232 m24.1 mi
Scarlett HillSW 233°228 m21.1 mi
Blackwood MountainSW 227°224 m22.6 mi
Poplar RidgeWSW 238°223 m18.6 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2018:5319:27
June solstice05:5919:5820:36
September equinox07:0418:4019:14
December solstice07:2316:2517:05

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394149586674787670594842
Precip in4.02.94.34.03.74.43.83.85.23.63.54.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roxboro 7 ESE, 11 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • ebony spleenwort7 obs
  • Common Box Turtle6 obs
  • crane-fly orchid6 obs
  • American holly5 obs
  • sensitive fern5 obs
  • Japanese stiltgrass5 obs
  • American sweetgum4 obs
  • Christmas fern4 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/357799176

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