Modoc Rock Shelter National Historic Site
Modoc Rock Shelter National Historic Site is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 142 m. Wiggins Hill stands 342 m to the southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Pere Marquette Park, a park 4.5 miles away. Great River Road runs past it. 103 named places lie within 25 miles, 19 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 142 m
What to expect
- Fee
- No
How to reach it
- On the Great River Road, National
- 5.8 mi off the Great River Road - Missouri
103 named places within 25 miles
- Pere Marquette Park: 4.5 mi
- Fort De Chartres State Park: 5.4 mi
- Ruma Community Park: 6.2 mi
- Fults Hill Prairie Nature Preserve: 9.4 mi
- Fogelpole Cave Nature Preserve: 9.9 mi
- Jawbone: 7.2 mi
- 690 ft: 8.5 mi
- Pikes Peak: 10.9 mi
- Lick Hill: 12.4 mi
- Mertell Hill: 14.2 mi
- Ste Genevieve Museum Learning Center: 5.9 mi
- Center for French Colonial Life: 5.9 mi
- Louis Bolduc House: 5.9 mi
- Red Bud Area Museum: 11.0 mi
- Bellefontaine House: 18.8 mi
- Kidd Lake State Natural Area: 8.5 mi
- Fults Hill Prairie Nature Preserve: 9.4 mi
- Salt Lick Point Land and Water Reserve: 21.0 mi
- Kennett Castle: 17.6 mi
- Pittsburg Plate Glass: 20.0 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 23.4 mi
- Skaggs Spring: 14.6 mi
- La Hae Spring: 18.2 mi
- Stone Arch: 16.8 mi
- Double Arch: 22.0 mi
- Wild Hog Bluff: 17.9 mi
- Owl Bluff: 22.0 mi
- Bloomsdale Rest Area (Northbound): 10.3 mi
- World War One Doughboy: 18.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Modoc Rock Shelter National Historic Site. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wiggins Hill | SW 232° | 342 m | 25.0 mi |
| Little Vine Hill | SW 231° | 298 m | 19.0 mi |
| Madden Hill | SSW 195° | 294 m | 18.4 mi |
| Beehive Knob | SSW 209° | 290 m | 20.4 mi |
| Buck Knob | WNW 302° | 259 m | 19.0 mi |
| Chimney Rock | SSW 208° | 253 m | 20.4 mi |
| Cheesebrough Hill | SSW 203° | 244 m | 20.2 mi |
| Haney Hill | SSW 193° | 238 m | 20.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:05 | 18:38 | 19:12 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:48 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:49 | 18:24 | 18:59 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:03 | 16:45 |
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 | 32 | 37 | 46 | 56 | 66 | 75 | 79 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 46 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.4 | 3.4 | 4.7 | 5.2 | 4.1 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 2.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kaskaskia RVR Navigation Lock, 8 mi away.
- hoary puccoon5 obs
- Lance-leaved Coreopsis5 obs
- Little-leaf Tick-clover5 obs
- Missouri Orange Coneflower5 obs
- Cliff Swallow4 obs
- purple prairie clover4 obs
- Prairie Groundsel4 obs
- Eastern Narrow-mouthed Toad3 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.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/354118808
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