Jones Mill Public Use Area
Jones Mill Public Use Area is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 149 m. Sumner Knob stands 370 m to the south-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Poole Knobs Recreation Area, a park 0.7 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 301 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 149 m
How to reach it
- 300.7 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 26.3 mi off the Natchez Trace Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Poole Knobs Recreation Area: 0.7 mi
- Poole Knobs Recreation Area: 0.7 mi
- Long Hunter State Park Bryant Grove Area: 0.9 mi
- Bryant Grove Recreation Area: 1.2 mi
- Fate Sanders Recreation Area: 1.3 mi
- Bald Knob: 0.8 mi
- Britton Hill: 6.3 mi
- Sanford Knob: 6.9 mi
- Moor Hill: 7.1 mi
- Posey Hill: 7.2 mi
- Slave Cemetery: 3.7 mi
- Sewart Air Force Base: 3.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Wall: 4.2 mi
- Capt. Jeff Kuss USMC "Blue Angel" Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Clover Bottom Mansion: 11.1 mi
- Sam Davis Home Visitor Center and Museum: 4.7 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon: Sadie Ford Hertitage Farm & Arts Center: 9.7 mi
- Tennessee Agricultural Museum: 13.5 mi
- Croft House: 13.6 mi
- Lane Motor Museum: 14.0 mi
- Helicopter Distature Statue: 5.0 mi
- Jesus Statue: 15.0 mi
- Wedgehill Market -Mixtape: Memories: 15.6 mi
- RONE: 15.9 mi
- #educationisnotacrime: 15.9 mi
- Backwoods Nightmare Haunted Woods: 5.3 mi
- Nashville Shores Water Park: 8.8 mi
- Visitor Center: 9.1 mi
- The Hermitage: 12.4 mi
- Williamson Family Farm: 13.5 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 0.7 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 1: 1.5 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 2.4 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 2.5 mi
- Percy Priest WMA - Unit 2: 2.5 mi
- Cane Ridge Community Garden: 8.4 mi
- Dixon L Merritt Native Plant Garden: 10.2 mi
- Woodbine Community Garden: 14.1 mi
- State Street Garden: 16.6 mi
- State Street Garden: 16.6 mi
- Anderson Bluff: 18.1 mi
- Indian Ladder Bluff: 20.8 mi
- Figuers Bluff: 21.9 mi
- Wray Bluff: 22.4 mi
- Dickson Bluff: 23.2 mi
- Seven Points Picnic Area: 5.9 mi
- East Fork Picnic Area (CLOSED - OVERGROWN): 6.2 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 10.3 mi
- Cedars of Lebanon Picnic Area: 10.6 mi
- Creekside Crossing: 16.5 mi
- Swimming Area: 1.5 mi
- Stahlman Waterfront: 17.8 mi
- Spring Creek: 15.9 mi
- Big Spring: 22.5 mi
- Omohundro Waterworks Lighthouse: 14.1 mi
- Maney Spring: 15.5 mi
- West Meade Waterfall: 22.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.4 miles of Jones Mill Public Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumner Knob | SSW 208° | 370 m | 14.0 mi |
| Buteomont | SW 227° | 368.8 m | 15.0 mi |
| Jenkins Hill | SW 225° | 367 m | 13.7 mi |
| Polk Hill | SW 220° | 366 m | 13.0 mi |
| Morton Knob | SW 224° | 365 m | 13.1 mi |
| Grandfather Knob | ESE 110° | 363 m | 14.3 mi |
| Scales Mountain | SSW 194° | 362 m | 15.7 mi |
| Pleasant Hill Knob | SW 234° | 361 m | 15.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:24 | 18:58 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 19:29 | 20:07 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:11 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 06:54 | 15:56 | 16:36 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 40 | 48 | 57 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 39 |
| Precip in | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 4.8 | 5.1 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 5.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gladeville, 5 mi away.
- Tennessee purple coneflower64 obs
- rose vervain50 obs
- Cedar Gladecress47 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard44 obs
- Nashville breadroot44 obs
- Widow's-cross39 obs
- eastern shooting star39 obs
- Tennessee milkvetch38 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/356876191
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