Essex Square
Essex Square is a park in Connecticut, at a recorded elevation of 20 m. Tater Hill stands 179 m to the north-northeast, 7.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Essex Historical Society, a museum 0.1 miles away. North Fork Trail passes 15 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 20 m
How to reach it
- 15.0 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 26.0 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 28.6 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 17 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Essex Historical Society: 0.1 mi
- Connecticut River Museum: 0.4 mi
- Essex Steam Train & Riverboat: 0.8 mi
- Museum of Fife and Drum: 2.9 mi
- Florence Griswold Museum: 3.8 mi
- Essex Park: 0.1 mi
- Municipal Triangle: 0.2 mi
- Essex Tennis Courts: 0.3 mi
- Hubbard Field: 0.5 mi
- Viney Hill Brook Park: 1.1 mi
- South Cove Access: 0.3 mi
- Sunset Pond: 0.4 mi
- Turtle Creek Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Heron Pond Preserve: 1.2 mi
- James Glen: 1.3 mi
- Stumpet Hill: 0.5 mi
- Cheney Hill: 0.8 mi
- Ely Hill: 1.2 mi
- Book Hill: 1.5 mi
- Viney Hill: 1.6 mi
- Suellen Kozy McCuin: 2.6 mi
- Lyme Roll of Honor: 3.1 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 4.4 mi
- The Eagle: 5.0 mi
- The Ancient Town of Lyme: 5.0 mi
- Indiantown Beach: 5.3 mi
- Chalker Beach: 5.3 mi
- Great Hammock Beach: 5.5 mi
- Chapman Beach: 5.5 mi
- Harveys Beach: 5.5 mi
- Cascade: 6.6 mi
- Cascade: 7.5 mi
- Cascade: 7.5 mi
- Clark Creek Falls: 7.5 mi
- Succor Brook Falls: 8.0 mi
- Stone Table: 3.8 mi
- Historic Ferry: 5.1 mi
- Salmon Head Rock: 5.1 mi
- tri-town marker: 7.2 mi
- turtle rock: 8.1 mi
- Memorial Garden: 3.2 mi
- Memorial Garden: 9.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 10.7 mi
- Gingers Garden: 11.2 mi
- Native Plant Gardens: 12.2 mi
- Lion Gardner Statue: 5.2 mi
- Monty the T-Rex: 10.3 mi
- Totem Pole: 10.6 mi
- James Madison: 12.1 mi
- Nathan Hale Statue: 14.9 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 3.4 mi
- Pine Ledge: 4.3 mi
- Broomstick Ledges: 15.9 mi
- Bluff Head: 16.4 mi
- Chimney Corner: 18.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 4.8 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 16.4 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 21.4 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 21.9 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 22.9 mi
- Skate Hut: 14.1 mi
- Powder House: 14.1 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 6.7 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 10.3 mi
- Old Spring: 21.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 8.4 miles of Essex Square. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tater Hill | NNE 12° | 179 m | 7.5 mi |
| Bald Hill | N 349° | 167 m | 7.6 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NW 312° | 140 m | 8.3 mi |
| Turkey Hill | NW 308° | 138 m | 7.1 mi |
| Mount Archer | NNE 26° | 136 m | 3.9 mi |
| Grassy Hill | ENE 60° | 129 m | 6.6 mi |
| Wig Hill | NW 306° | 128 m | 6.0 mi |
| Tower Hill | W 272° | 126 m | 6.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:54 | 18:25 | 19:02 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:45 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:38 | 18:12 | 18:49 |
| December solstice | 07:13 | 15:39 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 32 | 39 | 50 | 57 | 67 | 75 | 74 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 39 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Orient PT SP, 17 mi away.
- Mallard16 obs
- Diamondback Terrapin16 obs
- false indigo bush15 obs
- Double-crested Cormorant14 obs
- Ring-billed Gull12 obs
- Osprey11 obs
- Bald Eagle9 obs
- Common Merganser9 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/359277402
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