Frances Slocum State Recreation Area
Frances Slocum State Recreation Area is a park in Indiana, at a recorded elevation of 228 m. Morgan Hill stands 205 m to the west, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Miami State Recreation Area, a park 1.1 miles away.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 228 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Miami State Recreation Area: 1.1 mi
- Pearson Mill State Recreation Area: 6.1 mi
- Eck Park: 6.6 mi
- Davis Park: 6.7 mi
- Wabash Southside Fire Station: 7.6 mi
- Replica Liberty Bell: 6.9 mi
- Replica Statue of Liberty: 6.9 mi
- Wabash Bicentennial: 8.0 mi
- Browns of Wabash: 8.2 mi
- Old Wabash Jr. High Site: 8.4 mi
- Turtle Sundae: 6.4 mi
- Key Way: 8.9 mi
- Yellow Chair: 9.7 mi
- Excelerator: 18.7 mi
- Willie the Whale: 19.1 mi
- International Circus Hall of Fame: 4.6 mi
- Miami County Museum: 7.0 mi
- Circus City Festival Museum: 7.1 mi
- Wabash County Historical Museum: 8.6 mi
- Grissom Air Museum: 10.3 mi
- Snow Hill: 5.1 mi
- Brownell: 7.5 mi
- Cary: 8.6 mi
- Leonda: 8.7 mi
- Stringtown: 9.5 mi
- Asherwood: 1.9 mi
- Seven Pillars Nature Preserve: 2.9 mi
- Eel River Wildlife Management Area: 10.6 mi
- Walter H. and E. Marie Myers Nature Preserve on Flowers Creek: 10.8 mi
- Mary Thornton Nature Preserve: 14.0 mi
- Mark Honeywell - Memorial: 8.3 mi
- Lonely Red Caboose: 8.5 mi
- Charley Creek Garden Maze: 8.8 mi
- Grumman F-14B Tomcat: 10.2 mi
- McDonnell F-101B Voodoo: 10.2 mi
- Peru Garden Club: 8.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 8.7 mi
- Garden of Valor: 10.2 mi
- Friends of the Gardens: 17.3 mi
- Bodyworks Studio Community Garden: 22.3 mi
- Charley Creek Falls: 8.3 mi
- Charley Creek Falls: 8.3 mi
- Morgan Hill: 20.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Frances Slocum State Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Hill | W 272° | 205 m | 20.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:48 | 19:20 | 19:56 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:38 | 21:19 |
| September equinox | 07:32 | 19:07 | 19:43 |
| December solstice | 08:05 | 16:36 | 17:20 |
Local time (America/Indiana/Indianapolis).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 29 | 39 | 51 | 62 | 71 | 74 | 72 | 66 | 54 | 42 | 31 |
| Precip in | 2.4 | 2.2 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 2.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Wabash, 8 mi away.
- Funeral Bell10 obs
- bloodroot8 obs
- false rue anemone7 obs
- prairie trillium7 obs
- Dutchman's breeches6 obs
- great waterleaf6 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird5 obs
- bird's-foot trefoil5 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/358654232
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