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Ivy Hill Public Use Area

Ivy Hill Public Use Area from directly overhead

Ivy Hill Public Use Area is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 107 m. Ivy Hill stands 120 m to the northwest, 1.2 miles off. Lafayette's Tour passes 16 miles off. 79 named places lie within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 107 m

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Coordinates36.57403, -78.42139

15.6 mi off the Lafayette's Tour

Around it

79 named places within 25 miles

Parks54

Eagle Point Wildlife Management Area: 2.7 mi
Oakleaf Wildlife Management Area: 3.0 mi
Island Creek Public Use Area: 3.2 mi
Cedar Grove Wildlife Management Area: 3.6 mi
Lower Butchers Wildlife Management Area: 4.6 mi

Museums5

Clarksville Regional Museum: 8.5 mi
Prestwould Plantation: 9.5 mi
Henderson Institute Historical Museum: 16.3 mi
South Hill Tobacco Museum: 19.2 mi
Model Railroad / Doll Museum / Chamber of Commerce: 19.3 mi

Nature reserves3

Old Soudan Wildlife Management Area: 5.2 mi
Crooked Run Wildlife Management Area: 13.0 mi
Banister River Wildlife Management Area: 24.1 mi

Picnic sites3

Osage Picnic Shelter: 6.2 mi
Picnic Area: 6.7 mi
Picnic Shelter: 7.0 mi

Attractions3

Joseph S. J. Tanner Environmental Education Center: 6.8 mi
Solitary Sentinel: 7.2 mi
Granville Corn Maze: 24.5 mi

Historic sites3

Mecklenburg County Veterans Memorial: 8.6 mi
Thyne Institute Memorial: 17.0 mi
Dr. L. Julian Haywood: 18.9 mi

Gardens2

Occoneechee Plantation Terrace Gardens: 7.2 mi
J. Stewart and Mary L. Green Wortham Memorial Gardens: 19.2 mi

Cliffs2

Rosseechees Bluff: 7.2 mi
Chalk Level: 19.5 mi

Rest areas2

I-85 Southbound Welcome Center & Rest Area: 12.6 mi
Virginia Welcome Center: 13.5 mi

Peaks1

Ivy Hill: 1.2 mi

Artworks1

Reminiscing: 18.9 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Ivy Hill Public Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Ivy Hill	NW 325°	120 m	1.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:18	18:52	19:26
June solstice	05:56	19:58	20:36
September equinox	07:02	18:38	19:12
December solstice	07:23	16:22	17:02

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Nov.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	40	42	49	59	68	77	81	79	73	61	51	43
Precip in	3.2	2.5	3.9	3.2	3.5	4.6	4.9	3.8	4.1	3.5	3.0	3.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — John H Kerr DAM, 7 mi away.

Wildlife nearby

Fowler's Toad3 obs
Red-headed Woodpecker2 obs
common pawpaw2 obs
white oak2 obs
Acanthocephala terminalis2 obs
Redear Sunfish2 obs
northern green-and-gold2 obs
Brown-headed Cowbird1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/356562564

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