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Oak Meadows Park

Oak Meadows Park from directly overhead

Oak Meadows Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 9 m. Barbers Hill stands 25 m to the east-northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Texan Army Crossing of Buffalo Bayou (San Jacinto), a historic site 1.0 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 0.8 miles off. 3 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
9 m

How to reach it

Coordinates29.69529, -95.24080

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Gardens
  • Global Collection Garden: 1.8 mi
  • Culinary Garden: 1.8 mi
  • Pine Grove Garden: 1.8 mi
  • Susan Garver Family Discovery Garden: 1.8 mi
  • Woodland Glade: 1.8 mi
Artworks
  • Healing Nature: 6.1 mi
  • Healing Nature: 6.1 mi
  • Round About: 6.1 mi
  • Orbit II: 6.2 mi
  • Doble Physichromic Modular: 6.2 mi
Museums: 50
Attractions: 26
  • Ingenia Polymers Houston: 7.3 mi
  • Flow Works: 8.9 mi
  • Eco Station: 8.9 mi
  • Weather Station: 8.9 mi
  • 'Burp the Bayou' Red Button: 8.9 mi
Picnic sites: 11
  • JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 8.1 mi
  • Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 8.1 mi
  • CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 8.2 mi
  • Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 8.2 mi
  • Lake Picnic Area: 9.1 mi
Nature reserves: 10
Peaks: 3
  • Blackwell Peninsula: 13.5 mi
  • Mesquite Knoll: 18.7 mi
  • Barbers Hill: 23.2 mi
Cliffs: 3
Springs: 2
  • Beauchamp Spring: 10.0 mi
  • Riordan's Spring: 10.5 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Oak Meadows Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Barbers HillENE 62°25 m23.2 mi
Blackwell PeninsulaE 84°3 m13.5 mi
Mesquite KnollE 97°0 m18.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2619:0119:33
June solstice06:2219:5020:25
September equinox07:1018:4819:19
December solstice07:1316:5117:27

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F545864707783858681726256
Precip in4.02.73.85.25.17.94.53.44.55.43.44.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston-port, 4 mi away.

  • Black Swallowtail109 obs
  • Gulf Fritillary78 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee72 obs
  • Western Honey Bee65 obs
  • Monarch60 obs
  • Salt Marsh Moth60 obs
  • Fiery Skipper55 obs
  • Green Anole42 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/48553809

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