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Center Square

Center Square from directly overhead

Center Square is a park in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 100 m. South Mountain stands 313 m to the northeast, 7.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Mattatuck Museum, a museum 0.1 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 22 miles off.

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Coordinates41.55839, -73.04141
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
Historic sites
  • Veterans Monument: 0.1 mi
  • Clock-On-The-Green: 0.1 mi
  • Soldiers' Monument: 0.1 mi
  • Carrie Welton Fountain: 0.2 mi
  • Father McGivney Monument: 0.3 mi
Parks
  • Hayden Park: 0.2 mi
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Park: 0.4 mi
  • Library Park: 0.4 mi
  • West Dover Street Playground: 0.7 mi
  • George Tirado Sr. Park: 0.8 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
Gardens
  • Japanese Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Sustainable Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 1.6 mi
  • Biblical Garden: 1.7 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 1.7 mi
Waterfalls: 55
  • Cascade: 4.4 mi
  • Cascade: 5.5 mi
  • Buttermilk Falls: 6.2 mi
  • Spruce Brook Falls: 6.9 mi
  • Spruce Brook Falls: 7.0 mi
Artworks: 54
  • Ben Franklin: 0.3 mi
  • Whale Sculpture: 0.3 mi
  • Greetings from Waterbury: 0.4 mi
  • Maori Head: 0.6 mi
  • Jean Widmark: 11.8 mi
Attractions: 48
Beaches: 47
Cliffs: 23
  • Whitestone Cliffs: 4.4 mi
  • Satan's Dog Bowl: 6.4 mi
  • Bethel Rock: 8.4 mi
  • Ravens Roost: 11.2 mi
  • Petro Cliffs: 11.3 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Picnic Grove: 5.2 mi
  • Pond View: 19.5 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 19.6 mi
  • Oak Grove: 19.9 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 20.2 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Southington Rest Area: 7.1 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 15.2 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 15.4 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 19.2 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 19.2 mi
Springs: 3
  • Cold Spring: 17.4 mi
  • Hermit spring: 21.7 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 24.7 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Center Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South MountainNE 38°313 m7.9 mi
Lindsley HillNE 41°312 m5.9 mi
Clinton HillNNE 23°303 m4.4 mi
Becar HillNNE 33°297 m5.1 mi
Pine HillN 356°295 m7.3 mi
Great HillWSW 251°292 m5.2 mi
Compounce MountainNE 46°290 m7.3 mi
Fall MountainNNE 24°284 m6.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2819:04
June solstice05:1919:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1518:51
December solstice07:1615:4116:26

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968737265534233
Precip in3.12.94.04.13.54.13.43.54.34.53.44.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 12 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel13 obs
  • Japanese barberry11 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly10 obs
  • Canada Goose9 obs
  • House Sparrow8 obs
  • mountain laurel8 obs
  • European Starling7 obs
  • American burnweed7 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 way/607952691

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