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Viney Creek Public Use Area

Viney Creek Public Use Area from directly overhead

Viney Creek Public Use Area is a park in Missouri, at a recorded elevation of 283 m. Whitney Mountain stands 552 m to the southwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Highway M Public Use Area, a park 0.6 miles away. Sugar Camp Scenic Byway passes 4.4 miles off.

What the record says

Elevation
283 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.56702, -93.67712

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Cliffs: 31
Attractions: 20
Museums: 20
Springs: 10
  • Roaring River Spring: 8.8 mi
  • Magnetic Springs: 11.2 mi
  • Grotto Spring: 11.3 mi
  • Crescent Spring: 11.5 mi
  • Congress Spring: 11.5 mi
Ghost towns: 7
Historic sites: 7
  • Civil War Healing: 11.9 mi
  • Clemens House site: 20.1 mi
  • Confederate Monument: 20.4 mi
  • Reunited Soldiery Monument: 20.4 mi
  • Lest We Forget 9/11 Memorial: 24.5 mi
Artworks: 4
Beaches: 3
Waterfalls: 3
Gardens: 2
Picnic sites: 2
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridge: 6.8 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • short term/exstended trucker parking bathroom during busness hours: 14.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.8 miles of Viney Creek Public Use Area. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Whitney MountainSW 229°552 m17.6 mi
Anderson MountainSSE 149°552 m20.0 mi
Pond MountainSSW 197°542 m14.9 mi
Swain MountainSSW 194°540 m19.7 mi
Rich MountainSW 235°535 m17.1 mi
Miller MountainSSE 147°532 m20.5 mi
Brushy KnobsSSE 150°531 m14.5 mi
Brother KnobsSE 146°526 m14.7 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1918:5319:27
June solstice05:5719:5920:37
September equinox07:0318:3919:13
December solstice07:2416:2317:03

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F333847556472777668584637
Precip in2.52.33.95.06.24.84.23.34.63.83.93.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cassville, 14 mi away.

  • Prairie Lizard6 obs
  • Parrot Mushroom5 obs
  • White-pored Chicken of the Woods5 obs
  • Three-toed Box Turtle5 obs
  • deceiver4 obs
  • Ganoderma sessile4 obs
  • Helvella levis4 obs
  • common puffball3 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 node/358065260

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