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Thurgood Marshall Park

Thurgood Marshall Park from directly overhead

Thurgood Marshall Park is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 193 m. Mount Donwell stands 218 m to the northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center, a museum 0.5 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 11 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What the record says

Elevation
193 m

How to reach it

Coordinates32.68392, -96.85423

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Artworks
Attractions
Gardens
Museums: 49
  • Henry B. Tippie National Aviation Education Center: 0.5 mi
  • Commemorative Air Force Headquarters: 0.6 mi
  • Fred and Barbara Clark Telling Restoration Hangar: 0.6 mi
  • International Museum of Cultures: 4.6 mi
  • Oswald Rooming House Museum: 5.3 mi
Nature reserves: 12
Peaks: 5
  • Chalk Hill: 4.7 mi
  • Murray Hill: 20.5 mi
  • Poverty Knob: 23.9 mi
  • Sand Hill: 24.6 mi
  • Mount Donwell: 24.7 mi
Ghost towns: 3
Cliffs: 3
  • Cedar Bluff: 8.2 mi
  • Red Bluff: 17.9 mi
  • Bluff Overlook: 21.4 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Springs: 2
  • Hawkins Spring: 15.4 mi
  • McKamy Spring: 19.1 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Lynn Creek Park Beach: 10.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • SoPac Trail Rest Area: 12.9 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount DonwellNW 311°218 m24.7 mi
Poverty KnobWSW 239°216 m23.9 mi
Murray HillW 263°209 m20.5 mi
Chalk HillNNW 334°202 m4.7 mi
Sand HillESE 115°117 m24.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3219:0719:39
June solstice06:2120:0320:39
September equinox07:1618:5319:26
December solstice07:2616:4917:26

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485159667482868679685749
Precip in2.62.63.63.74.33.91.91.83.04.52.83.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dallas Redbird AP, under a mile away.

  • Cedar Elm98 obs
  • Quihoui privet70 obs
  • Prairie Tea58 obs
  • firewheel49 obs
  • Engelmann daisy49 obs
  • Heavenly bamboo48 obs
  • Antelopehorn Milkweed47 obs
  • eastern redcedar41 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/452935759

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