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Southcrest Park

Southcrest Park from directly overhead

Southcrest Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 12 m. Blackwell Peninsula stands 3 m to the east, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is empty lot, a park 0.5 miles away. Texas Independence Trail passes 0.4 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
12 m

How to reach it

Coordinates29.68197, -95.33228

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • empty lot: 0.5 mi
  • St Lo. Park: 0.6 mi
  • Pershing Park: 0.6 mi
  • Park at Palm Center: 0.9 mi
  • Edgewood Park: 1.0 mi
Gardens
  • St. Francis Xavier Prayer Garden: 2.3 mi
  • Sunnyside Urban Garden: 2.6 mi
  • House of Tiny Treasures: 2.9 mi
  • Picnic Grove: 3.8 mi
  • Woodland Glade: 3.8 mi
Artworks
  • Round About: 2.4 mi
  • Healing Nature: 2.5 mi
  • Clinical Research & Services Building Collection: 2.5 mi
  • Healing Nature: 2.6 mi
  • Doble Physichromic Modular: 2.6 mi
Attractions: 37
Picnic sites: 12
  • Lake Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
  • JP Morgan Chase Bench Area: 5.1 mi
  • Beverly and Staman Ogilvie Seating Area: 5.1 mi
  • CenterPoint Energy Seating Areas: 5.2 mi
  • Sarofim Picnic Lawn: 5.2 mi
Nature reserves: 10
Springs: 2
  • Beauchamp Spring: 7.3 mi
  • Riordan's Spring: 7.6 mi
Peaks: 2
  • Blackwell Peninsula: 19.0 mi
  • Mesquite Knoll: 24.1 mi
Cliffs: 2

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Blackwell PeninsulaE 83°3 m19.0 mi
Mesquite KnollE 93°0 m24.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2619:0219:33
June solstice06:2219:5120:25
September equinox07:1018:4819:19
December solstice07:1316:5117:27

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F555965717883858581736357
Precip in4.12.93.34.15.46.14.65.45.85.83.94.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Houston William P Hobby AP, 4 mi away.

  • Turk's cap16 obs
  • peppervine14 obs
  • Gulf Coast Toad10 obs
  • Green Anole9 obs
  • eastern poison ivy9 obs
  • Taiwanese Rain Tree9 obs
  • Asian Lady Beetle8 obs
  • Red Imported Fire Ant8 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/340121039

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