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Chisholm Creek Park

Chisholm Creek Park from directly overhead

Chisholm Creek Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 413 m. Oil Hill stands 424 m to the east-northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Great Plains Nature Center, a park 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 130 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
413 m

How to reach it

Coordinates37.74168, -97.26977

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Great Plains Nature Center: 0.3 mi
  • North Chisholm Creek Park: 0.4 mi
  • Denise Park: 0.9 mi
  • Eagle Lake Park: 1.5 mi
  • Redbud Park: 1.5 mi
Artworks: 55
Museums: 32
Attractions: 17
  • Rocks Gallery: 2.1 mi
  • Display Gallery: 2.1 mi
  • Display Gallery: 2.1 mi
  • art gallery: 2.1 mi
  • Gallery: 2.1 mi
Historic sites: 12
  • Vietnam War Memorial: 5.4 mi
  • Vietnamese American Community Memorial: 5.5 mi
  • Keeper of the Plains: 5.6 mi
  • Kansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 6.1 mi
  • Final Call: 6.1 mi
Gardens: 4
Picnic sites: 2
Beaches: 2
  • Swim Beach: 12.2 mi
  • Swim Beach: 12.3 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Peaks: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Oil HillENE 73°424 m22.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3319:0719:41
June solstice06:0820:1620:55
September equinox07:1818:5319:28
December solstice07:4216:3317:14

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333747566676817971594635
Precip in0.61.12.13.05.24.83.63.83.12.81.31.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wichita Colonel James Jabara A, 3 mi away.

  • Pond Slider239 obs
  • American Bullfrog175 obs
  • White-tailed Deer130 obs
  • Mallard129 obs
  • Blanchard's Cricket Frog119 obs
  • Great Blue Heron108 obs
  • Northern Cardinal74 obs
  • American Robin73 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/358641533

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