North Fork Valley Rural Historic District
North Fork Valley Rural Historic District is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 493 m. Bald Knob stands 1,327 m to the west-northwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Half Acre of Rocks, a peak 1.4 miles away. Blue Ridge Parkway passes 14 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 493 m
How to reach it
- 14.0 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 20.3 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
Overlooks nearby
- Devil's Backbone Overlook · 20 mi
- Pine Spur Overlook · 20 mi
- Mill Mountain Overlook · 21 mi
- Mill Mountain Star Overlook · 21 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Half Acre of Rocks: 1.4 mi
- Acre of Rocks: 2.2 mi
- Double Ridge Knob: 3.1 mi
- Paris Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Hightop Mountain: 5.0 mi
- Lucas Drive Lot: 6.0 mi
- Crestview Tot Lot: 6.1 mi
- Sunrise Park: 6.1 mi
- Owens Street Park: 6.3 mi
- Shenandoah Bike Trail and Park: 6.3 mi
- Winfrey’s Rock: 6.2 mi
- VTCC WW1 and April 16th Memorial: 6.8 mi
- The Pylons: 6.9 mi
- April 16th Memorial: 7.1 mi
- Audie Murphy Memorial Monument: 7.7 mi
- Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation: 6.7 mi
- St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall: 6.8 mi
- Smithfield Plantation: 7.9 mi
- Christiansburg Institute Museum: 10.7 mi
- Montgomery Museum of Art and History: 11.4 mi
- Ode to Jeff Gordon: 6.5 mi
- Perspective Gallery: 6.8 mi
- Frank Beamer Statue: 7.2 mi
- Coal Mining Memorial Coal Carts: 10.7 mi
- Modern Art: 10.9 mi
- Falls Ridge Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Sweet Springs State Natural Area Preserve: 8.3 mi
- Havens Wildlife Management Area: 8.8 mi
- Niday Place State Forest: 9.4 mi
- Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve: 9.6 mi
- Keffer Oak: 6.3 mi
- Dixie Caverns: 7.4 mi
- Eastern Continental Divide: 7.6 mi
- Sapphire Ballroom & Dance Center: 11.5 mi
- Norfolk Southern 8661: 20.0 mi
- Piedmont Vegetable Garden: 6.4 mi
- Hahn Horticultural Garden: 7.4 mi
- Radford Alumni Memorial Garden: 16.3 mi
- Mountain View Community Garden: 18.9 mi
- George Washington Carver Community Garden: 19.7 mi
- Dragon's Tooth: 9.5 mi
- Bear Cliff: 12.8 mi
- Bear Cliffs: 12.9 mi
- Barney's Wall: 16.6 mi
- Barneys Wall: 16.7 mi
- Camp Creek: 13.0 mi
- Bent Mountain Falls: 13.0 mi
- Cascades: 16.0 mi
- Spring Well #25: 20.8 mi
- Old Sweet Springs: 24.8 mi
- Rowan Memorial Home Spring: 24.8 mi
- Iranto Rest Area: 5.2 mi
- Radford Safety Rest Area North: 17.1 mi
- Haven Heights Picnic Site: 16.4 mi
- Smart View Recreation Area: 24.8 mi
- Water Front: 24.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 15.1 miles of North Fork Valley Rural Historic District. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | WNW 292° | 1,327 m | 13.6 mi |
| Wind Rock | NW 310° | 1,246 m | 15.1 mi |
| Lone Pine Peak | NW 312° | 1,232 m | 13.8 mi |
| Salt Pond Mountain | NW 312° | 1,231 m | 13.8 mi |
| Minie Ball Hill | NW 309° | 1,197 m | 14.6 mi |
| Arnolds Knob | N 353° | 1,186 m | 15.1 mi |
| Kelly Knob | NW 308° | 1,141 m | 9.2 mi |
| Poor Mountain | ESE 122° | 1,141 m | 10.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:33 |
| June solstice | 06:02 | 20:07 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:10 | 18:46 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:27 | 17:08 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 35 | 42 | 51 | 60 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Blacksburg Nwso, 8 mi away.
- Common Box Turtle6 obs
- red columbine6 obs
- bloodroot6 obs
- large white trillium5 obs
- walking fern5 obs
- Virginia Springbeauty5 obs
- round-lobed hepatica4 obs
- twoleaf miterwort3 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/356591370
Day trips start here
- Roanoke · 20 mi
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