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Sheridan Wildlife Area

Sheridan Wildlife Area from directly overhead

Sheridan Wildlife Area is a park in Kansas, at a recorded elevation of 751 m. The nearest named place is Phelps, a ghost town 7.5 miles away. Smoky Valley Scenic Byway passes 18 miles off. 15 named places lie within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 751 m

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates39.13848, -100.19321

18.1 mi off the Smoky Valley Scenic Byway

Around it

15 named places within 25 miles

Ghost towns7

Phelps: 7.5 mi
Museum: 13.6 mi
Bosna: 14.1 mi
Banner: 17.2 mi
Millbrook: 22.7 mi

Parks5

Antelope County Park: 16.9 mi
North Pole: 18.4 mi
Eisenhower Park: 18.4 mi
Sheridan County Fair Grounds: 20.2 mi
Wilson Wildlife Area: 24.7 mi

Nature reserves1

Sheridan State Fishing Lake: 15.7 mi

Museums1

Trego County Historical Society Museum: 19.0 mi

Attractions1

Castle Rock: 19.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:45	19:18	19:53
June solstice	06:16	20:31	21:11
September equinox	07:29	19:04	19:40
December solstice	07:57	16:40	17:22

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	29	32	41	51	61	72	77	75	67	53	41	31
Precip in	0.5	0.7	1.3	2.0	3.8	3.0	3.6	3.2	1.8	1.8	0.9	0.8

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

Wildlife nearby

House Sparrow1 obs
Eastern Woodrat1 obs
eastern redcedar1 obs
western poison ivy1 obs
Cannabis1 obs
Scarlet Globemallow1 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.

OpenStreetMap Wikidata Official site

OpenStreetMap element way/1051675587

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