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Poe Corn Park

Poe Corn Park from directly overhead

Poe Corn Park is a park in New Mexico, at a modelled elevation of 1,086 m. Blackwater Hill stands 1,334 m to the west-northwest, 20 miles off. 60 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates33.39279, -104.51279

60 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 32
  • Poe Corn Park: 0.1 mi
  • Fifth Street Park: 0.4 mi
  • UFO Park: 0.6 mi
  • Pioneer Plaza: 0.7 mi
  • Melendez Park: 0.8 mi
Historic sites: 10
  • POW/MIA Memorial: 1.1 mi
  • Berlin Wall Fragment: 1.1 mi
  • Iron Cross: 1.1 mi
  • Arch: 1.2 mi
  • Memorial Point: 2.5 mi
Peaks: 7
Museums: 6
Nature reserves: 2
Attractions: 1
  • R H Goddard's Launch Tower: 1.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Cliffs: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blackwater HillWNW 285°1,334 m20.4 mi
Haystack MountainNNW 332°1,248 m14.1 mi
Round TopNNW 346°1,239 m23.2 mi
Sardine MountainENE 74°1,212 m24.4 mi
Mesa DiabloENE 74°1,208 m17.1 mi
Panther HillN 351°1,143 m14.6 mi
Comanche HillE 86°1,110 m7.8 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0318:3719:10
June solstice05:5019:3520:12
September equinox06:4718:2418:56
December solstice06:5916:1716:55

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394452596777807870604739
Precip in0.40.40.60.71.00.71.91.61.61.50.60.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Roswell Climat, 2 mi away.

  • Great-tailed Grackle36 obs
  • Rock Pigeon14 obs
  • White-winged Dove11 obs
  • Rough Harvester Ant10 obs
  • House Sparrow8 obs
  • Eastern Fox Squirrel8 obs
  • Red-shouldered Bug8 obs
  • Mississippi Kite7 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/369197294

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