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Potter Park

Potter Park from directly overhead

Potter Park is a park in New Mexico, at a recorded elevation of 1,307 m. Chalk Hill stands 1,235 m to the south-southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is OG Potter Memorial Park, a park 0.1 miles away. 48 named places lie within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
1307 m

How to reach it

Coordinates34.40252, -103.23015

48 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 24
  • OG Potter Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
  • Sunset Park: 0.8 mi
  • Dennis Chavez Park: 1.0 mi
  • Clovis Historical Marker: 1.4 mi
  • Bob Spencer Park: 1.6 mi
Historic sites: 13
Attractions: 4
Museums: 3
Gardens: 1
  • Sunken Garden: 2.5 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Blackwater Draw Rest area: 10.6 mi
Peaks: 1
Artworks: 1
  • Melrose: 22.6 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Chalk HillSSW 213°1,235 m17.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5718:3219:05
June solstice05:4219:3220:09
September equinox06:4218:1818:51
December solstice06:5616:0916:47

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394350576776797770594840
Precip in0.70.41.00.82.02.43.03.82.02.50.70.7

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

  • Great-tailed Grackle9 obs
  • Mallard5 obs
  • field bindweed5 obs
  • Woodhouse's Toad5 obs
  • Canada Goose4 obs
  • American Robin4 obs
  • Channel Catfish4 obs
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove3 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/1191326099

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