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Hite Field

Hite Field from directly overhead

Hite Field is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 298 m. Deen Knob stands 629 m to the south-southeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Hartland Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Northwestern Turnpike passes 3.9 miles off. 23 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
298 m

How to reach it

Coordinates39.27512, -80.35230

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Hartland Park: 0.3 mi
  • Lowndes Park: 0.4 mi
  • Stealey Park: 0.4 mi
  • Monticello Playground: 0.9 mi
  • North Side Playground: 0.9 mi
Peaks: 23
Historic sites: 14
  • Jane Lew: 11.8 mi
  • Robert H. Mollohan Research Center Tower: 13.9 mi
  • WV Counties Monument: 15.6 mi
  • Stonewall Jackson Memorial: 17.4 mi
  • Stonewall Jackson Memorial: 17.4 mi
Museums: 10
Nature reserves: 2
Attractions: 2
Artworks: 1
  • Buckhannon Mural: 20.5 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Deen KnobSSE 147°629 m23.4 mi
King KnobESE 117°601 m14.9 mi
Bear KnobSSE 167°570 m15.4 mi
Kincaid KnobNE 54°544 m22.7 mi
Copeland KnobE 79°541 m11.4 mi
Buckhannon MountainS 180°541 m21.7 mi
Purgatory HillS 184°538 m18.0 mi
Bald KnobSSW 194°526 m23.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2618:5819:34
June solstice05:5620:1220:52
September equinox07:1018:4519:20
December solstice07:3816:2017:02

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313341526270747366544335
Precip in3.53.44.24.14.84.95.34.03.73.33.33.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Clarksburg 1, under a mile away.

  • ground-ivy29 obs
  • Nosy Pill Woodlouse20 obs
  • white clover14 obs
  • American Robin13 obs
  • common dandelion12 obs
  • Red Clover12 obs
  • hairy bittercress10 obs
  • Porcelain Berry10 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/652813075

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