William Goodrich Jones State Forest
William Goodrich Jones State Forest is a park in Texas, at a recorded elevation of 53 m. Shepard Hill stands 95 m to the north, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Windvale Park, a park 1.0 miles away. Texas Forest Trail passes 6.9 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 53 m
What to expect
- Operated by
- Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
How to reach it
- 6.9 mi off the Texas Forest Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Windvale Park: 1.0 mi
- Welch Park: 1.2 mi
- Maverick Square: 1.6 mi
- Pleasant Hill Park: 1.6 mi
- Cypress Lake Park: 1.7 mi
- Texas Whitetail Deer: 1.4 mi
- Monty Maverick Statue: 1.7 mi
- Texas Whitetail Deer: 2.3 mi
- Large Natural Form II: 2.3 mi
- The Watch Owl: 2.6 mi
- Highlander Walk of Champions: 2.5 mi
- Leon Lee: 2.8 mi
- George Bell Madeley Cemetery: 3.0 mi
- The Way Home: 4.7 mi
- Commemorative Tribute to George P. Mitchell: 4.7 mi
- Carousel: 4.7 mi
- Model Railroads Exhibition: 11.7 mi
- 1907 Tomball's Caboose: 11.7 mi
- Log House 18557: 11.8 mi
- site of civil war era gunpowder mill explosion: 12.7 mi
- The Woodlands Children's Museum: 4.1 mi
- Heritage Museum of Montgomery County: 6.6 mi
- Spring Historical Museum: 10.9 mi
- Tomball Museum Center: 11.8 mi
- Wunderlich Farm Interactive History Park: 14.0 mi
- Alden Bridge Community Garden: 1.6 mi
- Veggie Village: Alden Bridge: 1.6 mi
- Bear Branch Community Garden: 2.4 mi
- French Elementary Community Garden: 6.8 mi
- Learning Garden: 17.9 mi
- George Mitchell Nature Preserve: 5.5 mi
- Woodson's Gully Nature Preserve: 8.9 mi
- Cy-Fair Nature Trails: 20.5 mi
- Farnsworth Park: 20.9 mi
- Lake Houston Wilderness Park: 21.7 mi
- Crater Hill: 8.7 mi
- Shepard Hill: 17.5 mi
- Esperanza: 18.1 mi
- Johnson Bluff: 18.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of William Goodrich Jones State Forest. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shepard Hill | N 355° | 95 m | 17.5 mi |
| Crater Hill | ENE 64° | 48 m | 8.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:27 | 19:02 | 19:34 |
| June solstice | 06:22 | 19:52 | 20:27 |
| September equinox | 07:11 | 18:48 | 19:20 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 16:50 | 17:27 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 56 | 63 | 69 | 77 | 82 | 85 | 85 | 80 | 71 | 61 | 54 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.3 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 5.5 | 5.2 | 3.3 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 5.4 | 4.8 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Conroe, 7 mi away.
- American beautyberry175 obs
- Yaupon Holly150 obs
- Red-cockaded Woodpecker143 obs
- American sweetgum133 obs
- Bitterweed117 obs
- common bracken110 obs
- Dwarf Palmetto108 obs
- Carolina horsenettle100 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.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/116003227
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