Charlestown Historic District
Charlestown Historic District is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Mount Felix stands 142 m to the west, 8.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Fair Green Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Lower Susquehanna Scenic Byway passes 5.5 miles off. 27 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 8 m
How to reach it
- 5.5 mi off the Lower Susquehanna Scenic Byway
- 8.8 mi off the Mason and Dixon Byway
- 8.9 mi off the Chesapeake Country Scenic Byway, National
- 22.8 mi off the Red Clay Valley Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- King & Queen Seat · 24 mi
- Kilgore Falls · 25 mi
- Hawk Point · 27 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Fair Green Park: 0.1 mi
- Veterans Park: 0.2 mi
- Long Point Park: 0.2 mi
- Charlestown Athletic Complex: 0.2 mi
- Herring Snatchers Park: 2.6 mi
- Maryland Women in Military Service Monument: 3.2 mi
- Gilpin's Falls Covered Bridge: 5.3 mi
- Eastern Airlines Flight 605 Memorial: 5.3 mi
- Ice Storage: 5.8 mi
- Havre de Grace: 6.2 mi
- Caveat Forest Legacy Easement: 3.3 mi
- Dilks Forest Legacy Easement: 4.1 mi
- Elk River Associates Forest Legacy Easement: 4.5 mi
- Elk Neck State Forest Arboretum Trail: 4.9 mi
- Welch Point Managed Hunting Area: 6.3 mi
- Hand: 5.0 mi
- Big Fish, School of Fish: 6.2 mi
- Hammering Heart: 8.2 mi
- Wings of Thought: 13.9 mi
- Chloe & Lucinda (Nubian Goats): 14.0 mi
- Upper Bay Museum: 2.1 mi
- Perryville Railroad Museum: 5.3 mi
- Light Keeper's House Museum: 6.3 mi
- Maritime Museum: 6.3 mi
- Havre de Grace Decoy Museum: 6.4 mi
- Foys Hill: 2.1 mi
- Rhodes Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Black Hill: 3.3 mi
- Hog Hill: 3.7 mi
- Bacon Hill: 3.8 mi
- Community Connecting Us - Community Garden: 8.0 mi
- Polinator Garden: 10.1 mi
- Clark Garden: 13.5 mi
- Worrilow Garden: 13.6 mi
- Native Garden: 13.6 mi
- Roachs Shore: 2.1 mi
- North East Beach Area: 5.6 mi
- Garrett Island Beach: 5.8 mi
- Betterton Beach: 14.7 mi
- Belcamp Beach: 15.7 mi
- Herrs Potato Chip Factory: 12.2 mi
- Rudolph and Arthur Covered Bridge: 12.9 mi
- Sandy Hook Speedway: 18.1 mi
- Robert Fulton Birthplace: 18.6 mi
- Wilmington & Western Railroad: 21.5 mi
- White Banks: 6.5 mi
- The Eye: 7.1 mi
- Wildcat Point: 16.4 mi
- Green Quarry: 17.0 mi
- Deer Creek Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Wilson's Picnic Area: 23.8 mi
- Rock Ridge Picnic Area: 23.8 mi
- Hills Grove Picnic Area: 24.3 mi
- Frenchtown: 7.3 mi
- Lapidum: 8.3 mi
- Glenville: 20.3 mi
- Black Barren Spring: 16.0 mi
- Black Rock Spring: 21.5 mi
- Bethel Bridge Lighthouse (replica): 9.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Charlestown Historic District. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Felix | W 269° | 142 m | 8.3 mi |
| Face Rock | NW 313° | 136 m | 24.2 mi |
| Goat Hill | NNW 330° | 135 m | 12.0 mi |
| Mount Ararat | WNW 285° | 134 m | 6.1 mi |
| Egg Hill | NE 34° | 125 m | 7.2 mi |
| Bald Friar | NW 306° | 116 m | 15.6 mi |
| Schoolhouse Hill | W 279° | 115 m | 13.7 mi |
| Cherry Hill | NW 317° | 111 m | 18.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:37 | 19:55 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:01 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 35 | 42 | 54 | 64 | 73 | 78 | 76 | 69 | 57 | 46 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 2.6 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Conowingo DAM, 12 mi away.
- Spotted Lanternfly11 obs
- Asian Lady Beetle9 obs
- Huron Skipper9 obs
- Mallard8 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail7 obs
- American trumpet vine7 obs
- Tan Jumping Spider7 obs
- Pharaoh Cicada7 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 node/358241198
Day trips start here
- Perryville · 5 mi
- Havre de Grace · 7 mi
- Chesapeake City · 9 mi
- Aberdeen · 11 mi
- Newark · 14 mi
- Oxford · 15 mi
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