Onawa Materials Yard Wildlife Area
Onawa Materials Yard Wildlife Area is a park in Iowa, at a recorded elevation of 320 m. Blackbird Hill stands 426 m to the northwest, 5.5 miles off. The nearest named place is Tieville Bend Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 0.6 miles away. Loess Hills Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off. 109 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 320 m
How to reach it
- 13.6 mi off the Loess Hills Scenic Byway, National
- 2.0 mi off the Lewis & Clark Scenic Byway
109 named places within 25 miles
- Tieville Bend Wildlife Management Area: 0.6 mi
- Ivy Island Wildlife Management Area: 2.5 mi
- Blackbird Bend Wildlife Management Area: 3.6 mi
- Louisville Bend Wildlife Area: 6.3 mi
- Gramm Wetland: 7.9 mi
- Decatur Bend County Park: 2.0 mi
- Beck Memorial Park: 2.0 mi
- Lewis and Clark State Park: 3.1 mi
- Liberty Park: 6.1 mi
- Gaukel Park: 6.1 mi
- Monona County Veterans Memorial Museum: 6.2 mi
- Monona County Historical Museum: 6.2 mi
- Hornick Depot: 15.3 mi
- Burt County Museum: 16.9 mi
- Bryant House: 17.2 mi
- West Sea Ray Sandbar: 6.2 mi
- West Side Sea Ray Sandbar: 6.2 mi
- Sea Ray Sandbar: 6.4 mi
- Murray Hall: 18.0 mi
- Spooner-Holeton House: 24.0 mi
- Caboose: 14.3 mi
- Tank: 14.8 mi
- Sioux City - Smithland - Stagecoach Trail: 19.8 mi
- Inkpaduta Historical Marker: 21.8 mi
- Mondamin Veterans Memorial: 23.9 mi
- Blackbird Hill: 5.5 mi
- Durr Hill: 12.0 mi
- Granger Hill: 17.5 mi
- The Sacred Hoop Prayer Garden: 18.5 mi
- Dale G Bell Memorial Arboretum: 20.1 mi
- Picnic Area: 3.0 mi
- Tree Shelter: 3.1 mi
- Iowa DOT Rest Area (Parking Only): 21.4 mi
- Peiro: 23.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Onawa Materials Yard Wildlife Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackbird Hill | NW 312° | 426 m | 5.5 mi |
| Granger Hill | E 86° | 412 m | 17.5 mi |
| Durr Hill | ENE 74° | 391 m | 12.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:29 | 19:00 | 19:37 |
| June solstice | 05:50 | 20:22 | 21:05 |
| September equinox | 07:13 | 18:47 | 19:24 |
| December solstice | 07:50 | 16:12 | 16:57 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 19 | 24 | 37 | 49 | 61 | 71 | 74 | 72 | 64 | 51 | 36 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.1 | 3.0 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 0.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Onawa 3NW, 6 mi away.
- Cliff Swallow3 obs
- Common Snapping Turtle2 obs
- False Map Turtle2 obs
- late boneset2 obs
- Bald Eagle1 obs
- Red-winged Blackbird1 obs
- Boreal Chorus Frog1 obs
- Plains Spadefoot1 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/354368684
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