Moores Creek National Battlefield
Moores Creek National Battlefield is a park in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 3 m. Sand Hill stands 17 m to the south, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Stage Road Monument, a attraction less than a tenth of a mile away. Cape Fear Historic Byway passes 17 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What to expect
- Operated by
- National Park Service
How to reach it
- 17.1 mi off the Cape Fear Historic Byway
- 18.9 mi off the Green Swamp Byway
- 27.7 mi off the Brunswick Town Road
Named places within 25 miles
- Phoenix Park: 11.8 mi
- Quince Common Park: 13.5 mi
- Millers Pond Park: 13.6 mi
- Northwest Township District Park: 14.3 mi
- Leland Community Park: 14.4 mi
- Black River Cypress Forest Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Wrc Hunt"S Bluff Access Area: 3.9 mi
- Pender County Wildlife Protection: 10.5 mi
- Pender County Wildlife Protection: 10.9 mi
- Pender County Wildlife Protection: 11.3 mi
- Stage Road Monument: 0.0 mi
- Loyalist Monument: 0.1 mi
- Patriot (Grady) Monument: 0.1 mi
- Moore Monument: 0.1 mi
- Slocumb Monument: 0.2 mi
- Pender County Historical Museum: 12.2 mi
- Wilmington Railroad Museum: 17.6 mi
- Burnett-Eaton Museum Foundation 3.8 (9): 17.9 mi
- Burgwin - Wright House: 18.1 mi
- Bellamy Mansion Museum of History & Design Arts: 18.2 mi
- Our Heroes: 12.3 mi
- Monument to Cornelius Harnett: 18.1 mi
- Orange Street Landing: 18.2 mi
- Kenan Memorial Fountain: 18.2 mi
- To the Soldiers of the Confederacy: 18.2 mi
- Sandy Bluff: 8.7 mi
- Squalling Bluff: 9.1 mi
- Kings Bluff: 11.0 mi
- Bloody Bluff: 15.6 mi
- Walkers Bluff: 22.5 mi
- Yahweh Garden: 15.7 mi
- The Transplanted Garden: 18.9 mi
- Devon Park Community Garden: 20.1 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 23.3 mi
- Harbor Way Gardens: 24.2 mi
- Sand Ball Hill: 5.6 mi
- Sand Hill: 21.0 mi
- Bottle Chapel: 23.4 mi
- Palm Tree Island: 23.9 mi
- Wynn Plaza Pavilion: 25.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Moores Creek National Battlefield. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sand Hill | S 183° | 17 m | 21.0 mi |
| Sand Ball Hill | ESE 118° | 10 m | 5.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:51 | 19:24 |
| June solstice | 06:01 | 19:52 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:38 | 19:11 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:28 | 17:07 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 44 | 47 | 54 | 62 | 70 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 74 | 64 | 54 | 47 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Moores Creek NB, under a mile away.
- Great Blue Skimmer15 obs
- Green Anole9 obs
- longleaf pine9 obs
- Swamp Leatherflower9 obs
- American Royal Fern9 obs
- Squirrel Tree Frog8 obs
- Eastern Fence Lizard7 obs
- purple passionflower7 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 way/100017876
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