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Dowling Park

Dowling Park from directly overhead

Dowling Park is a park in Ohio, at a recorded elevation of 249 m. Rumpke Mountain stands 319 m to the southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is nopark park, a park 0.2 miles away. Accommodation Line Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
249 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.51624, -84.34637

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • nopark park: 0.2 mi
  • Bull's Run Nature Sanctuary and Arboretum: 0.8 mi
  • Jacot Park: 0.9 mi
  • Wilson Park: 1.2 mi
  • Wildwood Park: 1.3 mi
Museums
  • Butler County Warbirds: 2.4 mi
  • Canal Museum: 2.7 mi
  • Monroe Historical Society: 5.2 mi
  • Monroe Historical Museum: 5.2 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial Museum: 7.5 mi
Historic sites
  • Lux Mundi: 4.4 mi
  • East Avenue Bicentennial Memorial: 5.2 mi
  • Germantown Clock: 7.6 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 7.7 mi
  • Horse Memorial: 8.6 mi
Artworks
Attractions: 37
  • Land of Illusion: 3.6 mi
  • Miami Valley Gaming & Racing: 5.3 mi
  • Niederman Family Farm Corn Maze: 7.8 mi
  • Train Station: 7.8 mi
  • Train Station: 7.8 mi
Nature reserves: 34
Gardens: 33
  • Butterfly House: 11.5 mi
  • Tower Gardens: 12.7 mi
  • Bell: 12.7 mi
  • Clock: 12.7 mi
  • Demo Garden: 13.6 mi
Picnic sites: 10
  • The Mercado: 12.6 mi
  • Patio: 12.7 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 12.8 mi
  • Firehawk: 12.8 mi
  • Vortex: 12.8 mi
Peaks: 8
Rest areas: 4
Ghost towns: 4
Waterfalls: 4
  • Horseshoe Falls: 16.0 mi
  • Buckeye Falls: 16.6 mi
  • Lower Buckeye Falls: 16.6 mi
  • Crawdad Falls: 17.2 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Caesar Creek State Park Beach: 17.5 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rumpke MountainSW 219°319 m21.3 mi
Mount AuburnWNW 295°290 m18.3 mi
Devils BackboneWNW 294°288 m18.7 mi
Little MountNE 42°286 m5.5 mi
Heitsmanns HillWSW 243°274 m16.6 mi
Cedar MoundNNW 330°257 m11.4 mi
Stoddard HillNNE 24°241 m18.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4219:1419:50
June solstice06:1120:2821:09
September equinox07:2619:0119:36
December solstice07:5516:3517:17

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F293241526271757366544334
Precip in3.32.53.54.64.44.54.32.92.93.23.03.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Amur honeysuckle33 obs
  • white snakeroot18 obs
  • multiflora rose17 obs
  • fortune's spindle17 obs
  • eastern redbud13 obs
  • mayapple13 obs
  • eastern redcedar13 obs
  • Monarch10 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/800750656

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