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Powell Square Park

Powell Square Park from directly overhead

Powell Square Park is a park in Tennessee, at a recorded elevation of 511 m. Unaka Mountain stands 1,579 m to the south-southeast, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Spring Street Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail passes 23 miles off.

The record

What the record says

Built
1889
Elevation
511 m
Visiting

What to expect

Operated by
Johnson City Parks and Recreation

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates36.31046, -82.34757
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Spring Street Park: 0.5 mi
  • Founders Park: 0.5 mi
  • Veterans Park: 0.5 mi
  • Majestic Park: 0.5 mi
  • King Commons Park: 0.6 mi
Peaks
Cliffs: 28
Historic sites: 27
Waterfalls: 21
  • Red Fork Falls: 12.1 mi
  • Laurel Falls: 12.1 mi
  • Coon Den Falls: 13.3 mi
  • Martin Creek Falls: 13.6 mi
  • Dennis Cove Waterfall: 14.4 mi
Museums: 12
Attractions: 7
  • Downtown Square Breezeway: 0.5 mi
  • Johnson City Sign: 0.6 mi
  • Wautauga Dam: 12.6 mi
  • Appalachian Caverns: 13.4 mi
  • Bristol Thunder Valley Dragway: 15.2 mi
Rest areas: 4
  • Rest Area and Tennessee Welcome Center: 16.4 mi
  • Tennessee Welcome Center: 20.4 mi
  • Virginia Welcome Center: 20.7 mi
  • I-81 Rest Area - Greene County West: 23.6 mi
Picnic sites: 2
  • Shook Branch Picnic Ground: 12.3 mi
  • Twin Springs Picnic Area: 19.6 mi
Gardens: 1
Nature reserves: 1
Artworks: 1
Springs: 1
  • Hampton Spring: 9.9 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Shook Branch Swimming Area: 12.2 mi
Ghost towns: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Powell Square Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Unaka MountainSSE 167°1,579 m12.5 mi
Little Bald KnobSSE 155°1,359 m13.6 mi
Beauty SpotS 176°1,347 m13.4 mi
Piney BallSSE 157°1,288 m13.1 mi
Big BallSSE 162°1,254 m13.2 mi
Clarke MountainSE 139°1,250 m12.7 mi
Stone MountainSSE 147°1,129 m8.2 mi
Fork MountainESE 113°1,101 m10.4 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3419:0719:41
June solstice06:1320:1320:51
September equinox07:1818:5419:28
December solstice07:3816:3917:19

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F363947566471757468574639
Precip in3.83.84.03.84.45.25.94.23.02.83.43.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elizabethton, 6 mi away.

Wildlife nearby
  • Eastern Tiger Swallowtail110 obs
  • mayapple97 obs
  • Monarch95 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle94 obs
  • Eastern Carpenter Bee76 obs
  • Brown-belted Bumble Bee76 obs
  • Amur honeysuckle71 obs
  • American Robin65 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/123417799

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