Silver Mine Recreation Area
Silver Mine Recreation Area is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 225 m. Grassy Mountain stands 473 m to the west, 6.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Turkey Creek Picnic Area, a picnic site 0.4 miles away. Great River Road passes 40 miles off.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 225 m
How to reach it
- 40.3 mi off the Great River Road, National
- 31.6 mi off the Great River Road - Missouri
Named places within 25 miles
- Rhodes Mountain: 1.2 mi
- Silver Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Bald Knob: 2.1 mi
- Pease Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Hawkins Knob: 2.8 mi
- City Lake Park: 7.2 mi
- Memorial Park: 7.8 mi
- Staff Row: 8.3 mi
- Cherokee Trail Roadside Park: 10.9 mi
- Battle of Pilot Knob State Historic Site: 11.7 mi
- Fort Davidson: 11.8 mi
- St. Joe Lead Federal Mill No.3: 19.4 mi
- Floatation Tank 1: 19.6 mi
- Floatation Tank 2: 19.6 mi
- Water Tower: 19.6 mi
- Hassler Bluff: 4.4 mi
- Lee Bluff: 7.8 mi
- Owl Bluff: 18.4 mi
- Wild Hog Bluff: 22.5 mi
- Coil Bluff: 24.4 mi
- Cats Paw: 1.4 mi
- Big Drop: 1.5 mi
- Mina Sauk Falls: 16.6 mi
- Johnson Shut-Ins: 21.9 mi
- White Oak Spring: 7.5 mi
- Blue Spring: 19.7 mi
- La Hae Spring: 22.1 mi
- Cave Spring: 24.4 mi
- Battle of Pilot Knob Museum: 11.7 mi
- Powerhouse: 19.6 mi
- Taum Sauk Nature Museum: 21.4 mi
- Berryman: 14.9 mi
- Valley Forge: 16.0 mi
- Pinkley: 21.6 mi
- Memorial: 15.1 mi
- Old Time Flea Market: 16.9 mi
- Monsanto Lake Beach: 17.7 mi
- Pim Lake Beach: 17.9 mi
- Turkey Creek Picnic Area: 0.4 mi
- Gruner Ford Access: 12.3 mi
- Tip Top Roadside Park: 12.8 mi
- Double Arch: 18.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.2 miles of Silver Mine Recreation Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grassy Mountain | W 266° | 473 m | 6.9 mi |
| Buck Mountain | NW 325° | 464 m | 8.8 mi |
| Patterson Mountain | SW 236° | 457 m | 8.7 mi |
| Anderson Mountain | WNW 298° | 447 m | 10.0 mi |
| Pilot Knob | WNW 292° | 444 m | 11.0 mi |
| Bread Tray Mountain | NW 326° | 440 m | 9.9 mi |
| Black Mountain | SSW 206° | 438 m | 7.0 mi |
| Matthews Mountain | SE 135° | 436 m | 7.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:06 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:42 | 19:48 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 06:50 | 18:26 | 19:00 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 16:07 | 16:48 |
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 | 31 | 35 | 44 | 55 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 67 | 55 | 44 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.0 | 2.8 | 3.8 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.6 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fredericktown, 7 mi away.
- Prairie Lizard11 obs
- buttonbush9 obs
- fire pink9 obs
- marginal wood fern8 obs
- Fowler's Toad7 obs
- rose vervain7 obs
- American columbo7 obs
- Virginia saxifrage7 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358066009
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