Galveston County Park
Galveston County Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 2 m. Blackwell Peninsula stands 3 m to the north-northeast, 15 miles off. The nearest named place is Walter Hall Park, a park 0.2 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 5.3 miles off. 4 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2 m
How to reach it
- 5.3 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Walter Hall Park: 0.2 mi
- Edgewater Park: 0.9 mi
- League Park: 1.0 mi
- Heritage Park: 1.0 mi
- Helen's Garden: 1.1 mi
- Site of Galveston County Poor Farm: 0.4 mi
- Fairview Cemetery: 0.6 mi
- Japanese Settlers of Webster: 0.6 mi
- First Baptist Church of League City: 1.0 mi
- T. J. and Mary Lelia Dick House: 1.0 mi
- Spiritus Mundi: 4.4 mi
- pear: 17.5 mi
- Round About: 19.6 mi
- Healing Nature: 19.6 mi
- Healing Nature: 19.7 mi
- Vegetable Garden: 5.6 mi
- Watersmart Garden: 5.6 mi
- Genoa Friendship Gardens: 8.8 mi
- Community Garden: 14.8 mi
- Susan Garver Family Discovery Garden: 14.9 mi
- Space Center Houston: 2.3 mi
- Bay Area Museum: 4.1 mi
- Frank J. Brown Heritage Museum and Barn: 5.6 mi
- Perry House: 5.8 mi
- Vietnam War Flight Museum: 6.7 mi
- Armand Bayou Nature Center: 5.4 mi
- Native Coastal Prairie Preserve: 7.6 mi
- San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge: 13.3 mi
- Brays Greenway Park: 17.7 mi
- Taub Greenspace: 20.9 mi
- Jamaica Beach: 23.7 mi
- Sunny Beach: 23.8 mi
- West Beach: 23.9 mi
- Bermuda Beach: 24.0 mi
- Babe's Beach: 24.1 mi
- Lake Picnic Area: 21.9 mi
- JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 22.2 mi
- Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 22.2 mi
- CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 22.3 mi
- Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 22.3 mi
- Mesquite Knoll: 14.4 mi
- Blackwell Peninsula: 14.5 mi
- Rattlesnake Mound: 21.7 mi
- Mary Moody Northern Ampitheater: 23.4 mi
- Red Bluff: 9.3 mi
- Red Bluff: 9.3 mi
- Needle Point: 23.2 mi
- Beauchamp Spring: 24.3 mi
- Riordan's Spring: 24.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Galveston County Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackwell Peninsula | NNE 21° | 3 m | 14.5 mi |
| Rattlesnake Mound | S 181° | 2 m | 21.7 mi |
| Mesquite Knoll | NE 47° | 0 m | 14.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:25 | 19:01 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 19:49 | 20:24 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:47 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:12 | 16:51 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 55 | 59 | 64 | 70 | 77 | 82 | 84 | 84 | 80 | 72 | 63 | 57 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 4.2 | 5.1 | 6.5 | 4.4 | 6.6 | 7.3 | 5.8 | 4.5 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston Nwso, 4 mi away.
- Mallard102 obs
- Brown Anole102 obs
- Yellow-crowned Night Heron88 obs
- trifoliate orange76 obs
- Muscovy Duck73 obs
- Northern Mockingbird64 obs
- Mexican palo verde63 obs
- Northern Cardinal58 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/356846546
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