Fairmount Park
Fairmount Park is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 417 m. Oil Hill stands 424 m to the east-northeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Sodbuster: San Isidro, a artwork 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 129 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 417 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- City of Wichita
How to reach it
- 129.1 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Westmoreland Park: 0.7 mi
- Lynette Woodard Park: 0.7 mi
- MacDonald Park: 0.9 mi
- Claude Lambe Park: 1.0 mi
- Spruce Park: 1.0 mi
- Sodbuster: San Isidro: 0.3 mi
- Figure (Archaean): 0.4 mi
- La Priere: 0.4 mi
- Reclining Figure: 0.4 mi
- Grand Tosrse D'homme: 0.4 mi
- Ulrich Museum of Art: 0.3 mi
- Wichita State University - Lowell D Holmes Museum of Anthropology: 0.3 mi
- The Original Pizza Hut Museum: 0.7 mi
- Frank Lloyd Wright's Allen House: 1.6 mi
- Wichita Toy Train Museum: 2.5 mi
- Gallery: 0.3 mi
- art gallery: 0.3 mi
- Display Gallery: 0.3 mi
- Display Gallery: 0.3 mi
- Rocks Gallery: 0.3 mi
- Vietnam War Memorial: 3.2 mi
- Vietnamese American Community Memorial: 3.3 mi
- Keeper of the Plains: 3.4 mi
- Kansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 3.8 mi
- Final Call: 3.8 mi
- Hilltop Community Garden: 3.1 mi
- Mulvane Community Garden: 15.8 mi
- Bartlett Arboretum: 22.2 mi
- Restoring Roots Prairie Artscape: 24.4 mi
- Textron TAPD Outdoor Break Area: 8.9 mi
- Meadowlark Farm Picnic Site: 15.9 mi
- Swim Beach: 13.2 mi
- Swim Beach: 13.3 mi
- Annelly: 18.6 mi
- Plum Grove: 23.3 mi
- Oil Hill: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Fairmount Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oil Hill | ENE 69° | 424 m | 23.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:07 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:08 | 20:16 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:53 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:34 | 17:15 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 37 | 47 | 56 | 66 | 76 | 81 | 79 | 71 | 59 | 46 | 35 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 1.1 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 5.2 | 4.8 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 1.3 | 1.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wichita Colonel James Jabara A, 5 mi away.
- Elm Leaf Beetle49 obs
- Eastern Fox Squirrel45 obs
- American Robin40 obs
- Red-shouldered Bug28 obs
- Western Honey Bee23 obs
- Woodhouse's Toad23 obs
- Blanchard's Cricket Frog23 obs
- Carolina Mantis23 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/398996852
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