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Quillen Park

Quillen Park from directly overhead

Quillen Park is a park in West Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 181 m. Smith Knob stands 348 m to the east, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Syracuse Park, a park 0.4 miles away. Ohio River Scenic Byway passes 3.3 miles off. 132 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
181 m

How to reach it

Coordinates38.98915, -81.97353

132 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 54
  • Syracuse Park: 0.4 mi
  • Star Mill Park: 3.5 mi
  • Racine Boat Launch: 3.7 mi
  • Mason City Park: 3.9 mi
  • Pomeroy Park: 4.0 mi
Peaks: 30
Historic sites: 11
Museums: 8
  • Old Meigs County Courthouse and Chester Academy: 7.4 mi
  • Washington's Western Lands Museum: 12.0 mi
  • Mothman Museum: 13.5 mi
  • Our House Tavern Museum: 17.6 mi
  • Our House Museum: 17.6 mi
Artworks: 4
Cliffs: 3
Rest areas: 3
  • Rest Area 10-34: 21.1 mi
  • Mineral Wells Rest Area Southbound: 24.8 mi
  • Mineral Wells Rest Area Northbound: 24.9 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Gardens: 2

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Smith KnobE 97°348 m23.4 mi
Mail Point HillE 83°348 m24.0 mi
Balls KnobE 97°339 m20.1 mi
Shafer KnobE 80°332 m14.4 mi
Hall KnobSE 141°331 m23.2 mi
Stephens KnobENE 77°329 m23.8 mi
Utah HillE 96°324 m13.4 mi
Buzzard Roost KnobENE 73°315 m12.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3219:0519:40
June solstice06:0320:1820:58
September equinox07:1618:5219:27
December solstice07:4416:2717:10

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323544546472767568574537
Precip in3.13.14.13.94.54.64.53.63.73.12.63.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gallipolis, 16 mi away.

  • Monarch3 obs
  • Golden-backed Snipe Fly3 obs
  • Leopard Slug3 obs
  • Groundhog2 obs
  • American pokeweed2 obs
  • Virginia creeper2 obs
  • late boneset2 obs
  • red deadnettle2 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/920156533

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