Mount Palatine Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve
Mount Palatine Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 227 m. Piety Hill stands 189 m to the north-northeast, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Coleman Park, a park 2.4 miles away. Illinois River Road passes 4.4 miles off. 8 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 227 m
How to reach it
- 4.4 mi off the Illinois River Road, National
- 34.8 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Saint Louis Canyon · 12 mi
- Kickapoo Canyon · 12 mi
- Sac Canyon · 12 mi
- Aurora Canyon · 12 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Coleman Park: 2.4 mi
- Cerri Memorial Park: 5.5 mi
- Tonica Park: 5.8 mi
- George S Park Memorial Woods Nature Preserve: 8.2 mi
- Fox Run State Conservation Area: 8.2 mi
- Matthiessen State Park: 9.9 mi
- Matthiessen State Park: 10.4 mi
- Rod and Gun Club: 10.4 mi
- Donnelley State Fish and Wildlife Area: 10.6 mi
- Hartman Hunting Club: 10.7 mi
- Piety Hill: 9.2 mi
- Starved Rock: 12.9 mi
- Catfish Effigy: 15.8 mi
- Buffalo Rock: 15.8 mi
- Frog Effigy: 15.9 mi
- cherry Mine Disaster: 16.3 mi
- Pluto Monument: 17.9 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial: 18.4 mi
- Remembering the Radium Girls: 20.1 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 20.2 mi
- Cascade Falls: 10.3 mi
- Lake Falls: 10.5 mi
- Saint Louis Canyon Waterfall: 12.1 mi
- Wildcat Canyon Waterfall: 12.9 mi
- Ottawa Canyon Waterfall: 14.0 mi
- La Salle County Historical Museum: 13.1 mi
- Streatorland Historical Museum: 18.3 mi
- Tiskilwa History Museum: 18.6 mi
- Bureau County Historical Museum: 19.4 mi
- Mendota Museum & Historical Society: 24.5 mi
- Buffalo Rock: 15.5 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 19.7 mi
- Shadow Bluff: 20.5 mi
- Reuben G. Soderstrom: 18.3 mi
- Boy Scout of America: 18.8 mi
- Hopewell Peter Toth sculpture: 20.2 mi
- ATSF Depot: 18.8 mi
- Birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok: 19.3 mi
- Volvo Island: 22.4 mi
- Lake WIldwood Beach 2: 10.4 mi
- Lake Wildwood Beach 1: 10.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mount Palatine Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piety Hill | NNE 32° | 189 m | 9.2 mi |
| Owls Head | WNW 294° | 181 m | 17.3 mi |
| Buffalo Rock | NE 56° | 170 m | 15.8 mi |
| Starved Rock | NE 47° | 167 m | 12.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:33 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:25 | 19:52 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:19 | 18:56 |
| December solstice | 07:20 | 15:47 | 16:32 |
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 | 25 | 29 | 40 | 52 | 63 | 72 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 41 | 29 |
| Precip in | 2.0 | 1.8 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 4.8 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 2.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hennepin, 10 mi away.
- leafcup2 obs
- common milkweed1 obs
- eastern hemlock1 obs
- Black Saddlebags1 obs
- cypress spurge1 obs
- Yellow Sweetclover1 obs
- Common Purslane1 obs
- Red-spotted Admiral1 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/354251747
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