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Liberty Cove Recreation Area

Liberty Cove Recreation Area from directly overhead

Liberty Cove Recreation Area is a park in Nebraska, at a recorded elevation of 578 m. The Island stands 537 m to the south-southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Emmanuel Lutheran Church Historical Marker, a park 5.3 miles away. Heritage Highway passes 12 miles off. 92 named places lie within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 578 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.26112, -98.29894

11.9 mi off the Heritage Highway

Around it

92 named places within 25 miles

Parks58

Emmanuel Lutheran Church Historical Marker: 5.3 mi
Catherland Historical Marker: 11.8 mi
Republican Valley Wayside Park: 12.6 mi
North Park: 12.8 mi
Spring Ranche Historical Marker: 12.8 mi

Nature reserves18

Elk Creek State Wildlife Management Area: 12.2 mi
Bulrush State Wildlife Management Area: 14.8 mi
Smartweed Marsh West State Wildlife Management Area: 15.0 mi
Bluewing Wildlife Management Area: 15.4 mi
Glenvil Federal Waterfowl Production Area: 15.4 mi

Museums8

Willa Cather House: 16.8 mi
Webster County Historical Museum: 17.0 mi
Burlington Depot: 17.3 mi
Nebraska Military Historical Society Museum: 20.3 mi
Nuckolls County Historical Society Museum: 20.6 mi

Attractions3

Starke Round Barn: 14.1 mi
Hastings Central Park Fountain: 23.2 mi
Chatauqua Pavilion: 23.3 mi

Ghost towns2

Spring Ranch: 10.6 mi
Abdal: 13.3 mi

Historic sites2

Indian Raids Historical Marker: 13.1 mi
Frager Field: 17.1 mi

Peaks1

The Island: 18.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
The Island	SSW 208°	537 m	18.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:37	19:10	19:45
June solstice	06:04	20:26	21:07
September equinox	07:21	18:56	19:32
December solstice	07:53	16:28	17:11

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	25	29	39	50	61	72	77	75	66	52	38	28
Precip in	0.5	0.6	1.3	2.2	4.2	3.6	3.9	3.4	2.0	2.0	1.1	0.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — RED Cloud, 16 mi away.

Wildlife nearby

Curlycup Gumweed3 obs
smooth sumac2 obs
giant blue sage2 obs
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail2 obs
American Bullfrog2 obs
little bluestem2 obs
American Coot1 obs
Great Blue Heron1 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/357789836

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