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Dickinson Park

Dickinson Park from directly overhead

Dickinson Park is a park in Indiana, at a recorded elevation of 207 m. Weed Patch Hill stands 322 m to the northeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Murray Forest Park Softball fields, a park 0.7 miles away. Indiana's Historic Pathways passes 2.0 miles off. 46 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
207 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.88652, -86.50583

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Murray Forest Park Softball fields: 0.7 mi
  • Murray Forest Park: 0.8 mi
  • Free Methodist Park: 1.0 mi
  • T Street Park: 1.2 mi
  • Oolitic Park: 1.5 mi
Peaks: 46
Historic sites: 20
  • Big Joe Palooka: 1.5 mi
  • Site of the Bedford Branch of the State Bank of Indiana: 2.1 mi
  • Bedford Courthouse Square Historic District: 2.1 mi
  • 10 Commandments Tablets: 3.5 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 7.7 mi
Attractions: 17
Artworks: 15
Museums: 11
Cliffs: 7
Gardens: 5
  • Selma Steele’s garden: 19.0 mi
  • Wonderlab Garden: 19.4 mi
  • Jesse H. and Beulah Chanley Cox Arboretum: 19.7 mi
  • Butler Park Community Garden: 19.8 mi
  • Interpretive Garden: 23.6 mi
Picnic sites: 3
  • Eagle Quest: 11.9 mi
  • Scoutcraft: 12.1 mi
  • Picnic Area: 12.1 mi
Beaches: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Waterfalls: 1
Springs: 1
  • Pluto Spring: 23.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Weed Patch HillNE 39°322 m24.8 mi
Hohen PointNE 40°307.8 m23.3 mi
Hesitation PointNE 36°306 m24.3 mi
Browning HillNE 47°283 m17.9 mi
Kelley HillNNE 32°281 m23.8 mi
Hickory RidgeNE 45°279 m14.3 mi
Gobblers KnobSSW 199°276 m13.6 mi
Rariden HillS 183°274 m8.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:5019:2319:58
June solstice06:2220:3521:15
September equinox07:3419:1019:45
December solstice08:0216:4617:28

Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293342536371747367554334
Precip in3.42.73.95.15.65.24.33.63.43.53.83.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Oolitic Purdue EX FM, 3 mi away.

  • Ring-billed Gull4 obs
  • Black Vulture2 obs
  • Rose-breasted Grosbeak2 obs
  • Common Snapping Turtle2 obs
  • White-tailed Deer2 obs
  • Monarch2 obs
  • common pawpaw2 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee2 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/574819898

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