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Phelps Lane Memorial Park

Phelps Lane Memorial Park from directly overhead

Phelps Lane Memorial Park is a park in New York, at a recorded elevation of 8 m. Jayne's Hill stands 122 m to the northwest, 7.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Babylon Parks and Recreation, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Merritt Parkway passes 28 miles off. 13 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
8 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.72593, -73.32984

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Babylon Parks and Recreation: 0.0 mi
  • Phelps Lane Park: 0.1 mi
  • Babylon Town Hall Annex Parking: 0.2 mi
  • Parkway Lawns Park: 1.0 mi
  • Anthony Sanchez Memorial Park: 1.3 mi
Historic sites
  • Town of Babylon War Casualty Memorial: 0.1 mi
  • 9/11: 3.4 mi
  • Words of St. Paul: 3.7 mi
  • Words of Henry L. Stimson: 3.7 mi
  • John Donne Poem: 3.8 mi
Gardens
  • Carlls River Botanical Garden: 2.2 mi
  • Walled Garden: 3.2 mi
  • Garden of Serenity: 3.3 mi
  • Garden of Freedom South: 3.4 mi
  • Garden of Normandie East: 3.4 mi
Museums
Beaches
Artworks
Nature reserves
  • Isbrandtsen Marsh Tidal Wetlands Area: 3.7 mi
  • Ketcham Creek Preserve: 5.5 mi
  • Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge: 6.5 mi
  • Pineridge Park: 6.6 mi
  • West Hills Nature Preserve: 7.1 mi
Picnic sites: 26
  • Wolf 4: 9.4 mi
  • Wolf 5: 9.5 mi
  • Wolf 2: 9.5 mi
  • Wolf 1: 9.5 mi
  • Wolf 3: 9.5 mi
Peaks: 13
Attractions: 12
  • Recreated 1904 Wantagh Post Office: 10.0 mi
  • Jamaica: 10.0 mi
  • ATCG Tower: 11.7 mi
  • Long Island Maritime Museum: 12.3 mi
  • Suffolk County Vanderbilt Planetarium: 12.5 mi
Cliffs: 5
Rest areas: 1
  • Long Island Welcome Center: 5.4 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Jayne's HillNW 321°122 m7.9 mi
West HillsNW 319°106 m8.2 mi
Harbor HillWNW 287°106 m17.0 mi
Dix HillsNNW 349°92 m6.5 mi
Signal HillNNW 342°90 m6.6 mi
Mannetto HillsNW 307°85 m8.3 mi
Queens High PointW 276°79.2 m20.5 mi
Half Hollow HillsNNW 332°77 m4.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5818:2919:06
June solstice05:2319:4720:29
September equinox06:4118:1618:52
December solstice07:1515:4616:30

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323440506069757467564638
Precip in2.72.03.53.63.23.43.13.33.73.42.93.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Farmingdale Republic AP, 5 mi away.

  • Eastern Skunk Cabbage77 obs
  • Mallard73 obs
  • Canada Goose59 obs
  • Sweet Pepperbush46 obs
  • Mute Swan44 obs
  • Spotted Lanternfly40 obs
  • eastern poison ivy39 obs
  • common jewelweed36 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 node/357576763

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