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Mount Airy Historic District

Mount Airy Historic District from directly overhead

Mount Airy Historic District is a park in Maryland, at a recorded elevation of 232 m. Salamander Rock stands 562 m to the northwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Airy Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Old Main Streets runs past it. 26 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
232 m
Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.37705, -77.15415

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Green lawn: 0.2 mi
  • Green Lawn: 0.2 mi
  • Prospect Park: 0.2 mi
  • Park Bench: 0.3 mi
  • Vest Pocket Park: 0.3 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
  • Woodbrook Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 3.3 mi
  • Audrey Carroll Audubon Sanctuary: 4.0 mi
  • Maring Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 4.8 mi
  • North Point Neighborhood Conservation Area: 5.0 mi
  • Farver Cooperative Wildlife Management Area: 5.1 mi
Artworks
Museums: 37
  • Mount Airy Museum: 0.0 mi
  • The W. R. Rudy Museum: 0.0 mi
  • Damascus Heritage Museum: 6.6 mi
  • Gate House Museum of History: 10.0 mi
  • Western Maryland Railroad Museum: 13.4 mi
Attractions: 37
  • Gambrill House: 12.4 mi
  • Gambrill Mill: 12.5 mi
  • Thomas House: 12.7 mi
  • Best Secondary House: 13.0 mi
  • Best House: 13.1 mi
Gardens: 32
Peaks: 26
Picnic sites: 20
  • Blue Sky Park: 11.1 mi
  • Public Grills & Picnic Area: 14.4 mi
  • Chickadee Picnic Area: 16.7 mi
  • Oriole Picnic Area: 16.8 mi
  • Pines Picnic Area: 16.8 mi
Cliffs: 7
Springs: 5
  • Sandy Spring: 17.9 mi
  • Spout Spring: 18.8 mi
  • Bootjack Spring: 19.2 mi
  • Kanawha Spring: 21.4 mi
  • Koontz Spring: 24.0 mi
Waterfalls: 3
Rest areas: 2
  • Truck Rest Area: 2.0 mi
  • Mason-Dixon Welcome Center: 24.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Salamander RockNW 308°562 m22.5 mi
Bob's HillNW 313°535 m22.5 mi
Black RockNW 311°526 m22.7 mi
Piney MountainNW 324°524 m24.4 mi
College MountainNNW 332°520 m24.6 mi
Round TopNNW 329°520 m24.8 mi
Carrick KnobNNW 331°495 m24.8 mi
Cat RockNW 317°476 m22.8 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4519:21
June solstice05:4319:5920:40
September equinox06:5718:3219:07
December solstice07:2616:0716:49

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323442536371757467564537
Precip in3.43.04.03.64.44.74.54.24.84.03.53.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Damascus 3 SSW, 9 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • garlic mustard38 obs
  • White-tailed Deer36 obs
  • wineberry36 obs
  • American pokeweed28 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel26 obs
  • pale jewelweed21 obs
  • Northern Cardinal19 obs
  • eastern poison ivy19 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/358247267

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