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Latta Place

Latta Place from directly overhead

Latta Place is a park in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 209 m. Kings Pinnacle stands 520 m to the west-southwest, 24 miles off. Crowders Mountain Drive passes 21 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.

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Coordinates35.35484, -80.93090
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Neck Road Access Area: 1.1 mi
  • Stone Water Bay Cumminty Park: 1.8 mi
  • Oak Hills Park: 2.0 mi
  • Shuffletown Park: 2.7 mi
  • Richard Barry Memorial Park: 3.1 mi
Artworks
Attractions
  • Caboose: 6.4 mi
  • F-4 Phantom II: 9.1 mi
  • Historic Rosedale: 9.9 mi
  • Graffiti Park: 10.1 mi
  • Joust Tournaments: 10.2 mi
Historic sites: 56
Museums: 35
Nature reserves: 30
Gardens: 28
Peaks: 13
Beaches: 5
  • Ramsay Creek Park Beach: 7.7 mi
  • SHOAL: 9.8 mi
  • SHOAL: 10.7 mi
  • South Point Beach: 14.4 mi
  • Sailing Beach: 18.4 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • North Carolina Welcome Center: 16.1 mi
  • South Carolina Welcome Center: 19.0 mi
  • I-85 Cabarrus County Rest Area: 20.1 mi
  • I-85 Cabarrus County Rest Area: 20.2 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • High Shoals: 15.6 mi
  • Little Long Creek Falls: 16.4 mi
  • Long Creek Falls: 17.4 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Carowinds Grove: 17.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Kings PinnacleWSW 245°520 m23.8 mi
Anderson MountainNNW 329°471 m17.2 mi
Crowders MountainWSW 247°458 m21.2 mi
Little MountainNNW 334°409 m17.8 mi
Spencer MountainWSW 249°375 m11.1 mi
Henry KnobSW 231°344 m24.8 mi
Jackson KnobSW 233°328 m17.0 mi
Reese MountainWNW 296°325 m11.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2819:0219:36
June solstice06:1020:0520:43
September equinox07:1218:4919:22
December solstice07:3016:3617:16

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F424653616977807973625145
Precip in3.53.14.03.83.44.03.74.43.73.23.33.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Charlotte Douglas AP, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Green Anole86 obs
  • bloodroot85 obs
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail67 obs
  • Little Brown Jugs66 obs
  • Fowler's Toad61 obs
  • butterfly milkweed50 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel49 obs
  • crane-fly orchid45 obs

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

Sources

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Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/565970524

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