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Cargills Creek Wildlife Management Area

Cargills Creek Wildlife Management Area from directly overhead

Cargills Creek Wildlife Management Area is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 98 m. Hagers Mountain stands 210 m to the southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Hogan Creek Wildlife Management Area, a park 1.3 miles away. 78 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
98 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.72792, -78.66056

78 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 42
Museums: 8
  • Prestwould Plantation: 7.6 mi
  • Clarksville Regional Museum: 9.1 mi
  • South Boston - Halifax County Museum: 13.9 mi
  • Noland Village at Providence: 16.9 mi
  • L. E. Coleman African-American Museum: 17.5 mi
Historic sites: 8
  • Mecklenburg County Veterans Memorial: 9.1 mi
  • Earthwork Fortification: 10.8 mi
  • Artillery Emplacement: 11.0 mi
  • Thyne Institute Memorial: 12.1 mi
  • Blue Star Memorial: 13.5 mi
Gardens: 4
  • Occoneechee Plantation Terrace Gardens: 9.9 mi
  • Seven Oaks Gardens: 12.3 mi
  • Mulberry Hill Historic Gardens: 12.6 mi
  • Herb Garden: 24.8 mi
Peaks: 3
  • Ivy Hill: 15.8 mi
  • Bethel Hill: 20.3 mi
  • Hagers Mountain: 25.0 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Osage Picnic Shelter: 21.6 mi
  • Picnic Area: 21.7 mi
  • Picnic Shelter: 21.8 mi
Attractions: 2
  • Solitary Sentinel: 9.9 mi
  • Joseph S. J. Tanner Environmental Education Center: 21.7 mi
Cliffs: 2

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Hagers MountainSW 223°210 m25.0 mi
Bethel HillSW 223°192 m20.3 mi
Ivy HillSE 127°120 m15.8 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 solstice07:2416:2217:03

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, 10 mi away.

  • Fowler's Toad17 obs
  • Common Five-lined Skink6 obs
  • Summer Tanager5 obs
  • common pawpaw4 obs
  • smooth purple coneflower4 obs
  • Common Wormsnake3 obs
  • Common Box Turtle3 obs
  • White-tailed Deer3 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/356587804

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