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Corporal Ruoff Square

Corporal Ruoff Square from directly overhead

Corporal Ruoff Square is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Stony Hill stands 179 m to the west-northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Police Officer Nicholas Demutiis Playground, a park 0.3 miles away. Bronx River Parkway passes 10 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
9 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.68049, -73.84428

Named places within 25 miles

Museums
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Attractions
Artworks
Beaches
Peaks: 51
  • Maspeth Plateau: 4.5 mi
  • Laurel Hill: 5.3 mi
  • Willink Hill: 6.4 mi
  • Breeze Hill: 6.6 mi
  • Sullivan Hill: 6.6 mi
Picnic sites: 39
  • Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge: 4.5 mi
  • Picnic Area D: 6.0 mi
  • Picnic Area C: 6.0 mi
  • Picnic Area F: 6.1 mi
  • Picnic Area G: 6.1 mi
Cliffs: 16
  • Palisades: 11.1 mi
  • Palisades: 11.3 mi
  • Coogan's Bluff: 11.6 mi
  • Palisades: 11.7 mi
  • Palisades: 15.4 mi
Lighthouses: 10
Waterfalls: 8
  • Binnen Falls: 6.5 mi
  • Ambergill Falls: 6.6 mi
  • Fallkill Falls: 6.8 mi
  • The Loch: 9.9 mi
  • The Falls: 14.4 mi
Rest areas: 4
Springs: 1
  • Tulip Springs: 24.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Stony HillWNW 294°179 m22.8 mi
Mayapple HillWNW 286°175 m24.1 mi
Todt HillWSW 249°125 m15.2 mi
Jayne's HillENE 67°122 m23.8 mi
Harbor HillNE 52°106 m13.5 mi
West HillsENE 66°106 m23.5 mi
Nook HillW 279°92 m24.6 mi
Bronx High PointNNW 348°85 m15.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0018:3119:08
June solstice05:2519:4920:31
September equinox06:4418:1818:54
December solstice07:1715:4816:32

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333541516170767568574738
Precip in3.22.83.93.63.73.93.94.13.63.73.14.0

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — JFK Intl AP, 5 mi away.

  • Asian bittersweet267 obs
  • garlic mustard245 obs
  • American jumpseed188 obs
  • multiflora rose182 obs
  • northern spicebush174 obs
  • sassafras171 obs
  • American Robin170 obs
  • eastern poison ivy149 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 way/559492021

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