Chickasaw Hill Recreation Area
Chickasaw Hill Recreation Area is a park in Mississippi, at a recorded elevation of 81 m. Lowe Mountain stands 174 m to the north-northeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Chickasaw Hill, a peak 0.2 miles away. Great River Road passes 42 miles off. 10 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 81 m
How to reach it
- 42.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Plum Point Recreation Area: 1.9 mi
- Point Pleasant Recreation Area: 2.0 mi
- Long Branch Recreation Area: 2.9 mi
- Water Valley Landing Recreation Area: 3.6 mi
- Wallace Creek Recreation Area: 4.0 mi
- Chickasaw Hill: 0.2 mi
- Spyglass Hill: 2.7 mi
- Persimmon Hill: 5.1 mi
- Terrapin Mountain: 10.9 mi
- Lowe Mountain: 11.6 mi
- Tallahatchie Bluff: 15.0 mi
- Nelsons Bluff: 15.7 mi
- Jonathans Bluff: 16.4 mi
- Point 8: 21.7 mi
- Carver Bluff: 24.0 mi
- University of Mississippi Museum: 21.9 mi
- Burns-Belfry Museum and Multicultural Center: 22.1 mi
- L.Q.C. Lamar House Museum: 22.6 mi
- Palmer/Salloum Tennis Center: 21.2 mi
- The Grove: 21.6 mi
- James Meredith statue: 21.4 mi
- William Faulkner statue: 22.3 mi
- Lower Lake Beach: 16.4 mi
- Bailey Woods: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Chickasaw Hill Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowe Mountain | NNE 30° | 174 m | 11.6 mi |
| Thacker Mountain | NE 51° | 174 m | 17.9 mi |
| Terrapin Mountain | NNE 29° | 166 m | 10.9 mi |
| Sand Hill | ENE 58° | 141 m | 22.7 mi |
| Saddlers Hill | NE 42° | 139 m | 24.6 mi |
| Carter Mountain | NNE 29° | 123 m | 20.6 mi |
| Spyglass Hill | SE 133° | 117 m | 2.7 mi |
| Chickasaw Hill | NNE 22° | 99 m | 0.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:04 | 18:38 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:49 | 19:38 | 20:15 |
| September equinox | 06:48 | 18:25 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:02 | 16:16 | 16:54 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 45 | 53 | 61 | 70 | 77 | 80 | 80 | 74 | 63 | 51 | 44 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 6.3 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 5.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Water Valley, 11 mi away.
- common jewelweed1 obs
- mayapple1 obs
- Common Pill Woodlouse1 obs
- Black Swallowtail1 obs
- loblolly pine1 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail1 obs
- Madagascar Periwinkle1 obs
- crimson clover1 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/357968543
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