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Spikings Farm Park

Spikings Farm Park from directly overhead

Spikings Farm Park is a park in Illinois, at a recorded elevation of 183 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is First Nations Community Garden, a garden 0.2 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 6.8 miles off. 18 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
183 m

What to expect

Operated by
Chicago Park District

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates41.96678, -87.72838

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Parks
Artworks
  • Samuel Gompers Monument: 0.6 mi
  • Hope and Renewal: 0.8 mi
  • Hope and Renewal: 0.8 mi
  • Quarks VI: 1.6 mi
  • Thomas Jefferson Statue: 1.7 mi
Museums
Picnic sites
Historic sites
  • Iroquois Theatre Fire Memorial: 0.9 mi
  • The Shrine of Assyrian Patriarchs & Bishops: 1.0 mi
  • Memorial of the Assyrian Martyrs: 1.0 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 1.1 mi
  • Ella Labagh: 1.2 mi
Attractions
Peaks: 18
Waterfalls: 4
Cliffs: 2
Lighthouses: 2
Springs: 1
  • Rain Garden Springs: 2.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mounded LandfillSW 228°259 m24.3 mi
Mount TrashmoreNNE 17°204 m4.1 mi
Players HillSSW 198°187 m6.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2619:03
June solstice05:1619:4820:31
September equinox06:3918:1318:50
December solstice07:1615:3816:23

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F262938485868747467544331

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Northerly IS, 10 mi away.

  • White-tailed Deer599 obs
  • American Robin469 obs
  • Great Blue Heron446 obs
  • Eastern Gray Squirrel420 obs
  • Black-crowned Night Heron415 obs
  • Mallard381 obs
  • lesser celandine339 obs
  • Virginia bluebells334 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/195459459

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