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Temple Lot

Temple Lot from directly overhead

Temple Lot is a park in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 312 m. Miller Hill stands 342 m to the south, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Historical Marker, a historic site less than a tenth of a mile away. Cliff Drive passes 4.7 miles off. 12 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Church of Christ (Temple Lot)

How to reach it

Coordinates39.09080, -94.42813

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Historic sites
Artworks
  • UN Peace Plaza: 0.0 mi
  • Bertoldie Memorial: 0.4 mi
  • Harry S Truman: 0.6 mi
  • Andrew Drumm: 2.5 mi
  • Ewing and Muriel Kauffman: 3.8 mi
Parks
  • UN Peace Plaza: 0.1 mi
  • Campus Park: 0.4 mi
  • Maple Forest Community Park: 0.4 mi
  • Bingham-Waggoner Estate: 0.6 mi
  • Bundschu Park: 0.9 mi
Museums
Attractions
Nature reserves: 20
Gardens: 20
Peaks: 12
  • Arsenal Hill: 7.6 mi
  • Nebo Hill: 9.2 mi
  • Minter Hill: 12.4 mi
  • Bowler Hill: 14.1 mi
  • Sni-A-Bar Point: 14.4 mi
Picnic sites: 4
Beaches: 3
  • Swimming Beach: 7.5 mi
  • Little Platte Swim Beach: 22.9 mi
  • Watkins Mill Beach: 23.4 mi
Waterfalls: 3
  • Line Creek Double Falls: 12.5 mi
  • Turkey Creek Falls: 14.5 mi
  • Tryst Falls: 21.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Springs: 1
  • Pioneer Spring: 0.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Miller HillS 181°342 m21.4 mi
Bowler HillS 173°330 m14.1 mi
Rattlesnake HillSE 124°306 m17.9 mi
Nebo HillNNE 25°291 m9.2 mi
Monkey MountainESE 114°289 m14.5 mi
Minter HillESE 119°288 m12.4 mi
Sni-A-Bar PointESE 112°286 m14.4 mi
Bone HillE 86°282 m15.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2218:5519:30
June solstice05:5320:0820:48
September equinox07:0618:4119:16
December solstice07:3416:1716:59

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283344546473777668564333
Precip in1.51.92.94.46.05.35.15.14.83.52.41.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 3 mi away.

  • American pokeweed16 obs
  • North American Wheel Bug13 obs
  • ground-ivy13 obs
  • Rock Pigeon10 obs
  • Bold Jumping Spider10 obs
  • Ailanthus Webworm Moth10 obs
  • box elder9 obs
  • common star-of-Bethlehem9 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/240577415

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