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Portsmouth Plains

Portsmouth Plains from directly overhead

Portsmouth Plains is a park in New Hampshire, at a recorded elevation of 19 m. Third Hill stands 104 m to the north, 8.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Powder House Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Coastal Byway passes 1.4 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
19 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.05809, -70.78419

Overlooks nearby

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Powder House Park: 0.5 mi
  • Ward Park: 0.8 mi
  • Lafayette Playground: 0.8 mi
  • Pannaway Park: 0.9 mi
  • Pine Street Playground: 1.2 mi
Peaks
  • Peverly Hill: 0.9 mi
  • Sagamore Hill: 1.2 mi
  • Hobbs Hill: 1.5 mi
  • Sagamore Hill: 1.6 mi
  • Brown Hill: 2.8 mi
Nature reserves
Historic sites
Museums: 58
Gardens: 47
Beaches: 45
Artworks: 31
Attractions: 18
Cliffs: 15
  • Coffin's Cut: 10.7 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 10.7 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 10.7 mi
  • Coffin's Cut: 10.7 mi
  • Dover Bluff: 11.8 mi
Waterfalls: 14
  • Piscassic Falls: 8.4 mi
  • Second Falls: 8.8 mi
  • Packer's Falls: 9.0 mi
  • Great Falls: 9.7 mi
  • Lower Falls: 9.7 mi
Picnic sites: 9
  • Birthday Bay: 1.5 mi
  • Fort McClary Picnic Area: 4.2 mi
  • Front Pavilion: 5.6 mi
  • Scamman Pavilion: 5.6 mi
  • 4H Pavilion: 5.8 mi
Rest areas: 6
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Southbound: 9.2 mi
  • Hampton Liquor and Wine Outlet Northbound: 9.4 mi
  • Seabrook Rest Area: 12.9 mi
  • I 95 SB Salisbury Rest Area: 13.3 mi
  • Rest Area I-495 (South Bound): 19.9 mi
Lighthouses: 5
Springs: 4
  • Jailhouse Spring: 10.0 mi
  • Two Sisters Spring: 13.8 mi
  • Lion's Spring: 16.8 mi
  • Rail Spring: 21.0 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 10.5 miles of Portsmouth Plains. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Third HillN 2°104 m8.0 mi
Stratham HillWSW 257°88 m5.5 mi
Great HillN 358°87 m7.2 mi
Jewell HillWSW 251°81 m5.9 mi
Raitt HillN 2°74 m7.2 mi
Oakland HillWSW 258°73 m9.5 mi
Long HillWSW 249°70 m5.5 mi
Swasey HillN 3°69 m9.1 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4718:1818:55
June solstice05:0519:4320:27
September equinox06:3118:0518:42
December solstice07:1215:2516:12

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F242734455565706962504030
Precip in3.63.64.84.64.04.63.93.74.14.94.14.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Greenland, 3 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Common Eastern Bumble Bee28 obs
  • alder buckthorn23 obs
  • American Copper20 obs
  • Asian bittersweet18 obs
  • American Lady17 obs
  • Monarch17 obs
  • American pokeweed16 obs
  • eastern white pine16 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/511831069

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