Y H Thomas Park
Y H Thomas Park is a park in Virginia, at a recorded elevation of 1 m. Mount Trashmore stands 18 m to the southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Air Power Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Colonial Parkway passes 16 miles off. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1 m
How to reach it
- 15.6 mi off the Colonial Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Air Power Park: 0.6 mi
- Old Hampton Community Park: 0.8 mi
- Ridgway Bark Park: 1.1 mi
- River Street Park: 1.1 mi
- Carousel Park & Hampton Carousel: 1.2 mi
- Lincoln and Armstrong Shrine: 1.5 mi
- Fluidity: 5.9 mi
- Cast Bronze by M Cleveland: 6.6 mi
- Memory of Green: 6.8 mi
- Reinvented: 7.0 mi
- Rosa Parks: 1.6 mi
- Booker T. Washington Memorial: 1.7 mi
- William Tucker Cemetry: 2.2 mi
- POW/MIA Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Battery Anderson-Ruggles: 3.5 mi
- General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon: 2.6 mi
- USS Monitor: 7.2 mi
- F/A-18: 8.4 mi
- USS Norfolk Bell: 13.5 mi
- Pokey Smokey II: 14.1 mi
- Buckroe Community Garden: 3.3 mi
- Newport News Community Garden: 5.6 mi
- Hampton Roads Garden: 7.4 mi
- Jenny Russell Giving Garden: 10.9 mi
- African Village Garden: 11.8 mi
- Air Power Park: 0.7 mi
- Hampton History Museum: 1.0 mi
- Virginia Air And Space Center: 1.2 mi
- Hampton University Museum: 1.5 mi
- Casemate Museum: 3.6 mi
- Grandview Natural Preserve: 5.7 mi
- Weyanoke Bird and Wildflower Sanctuary: 11.6 mi
- Wildlife Habitat Enhancement: 17.3 mi
- Long Leaf Pine Enhancement: 17.4 mi
- Camp Moonya: 19.7 mi
- Outlook Beach: 3.6 mi
- Grandview Beach: 4.8 mi
- Huntington Beach: 5.6 mi
- Willoughby Beach: 8.1 mi
- Needle Beach: 13.9 mi
- Boushs Bluff: 9.8 mi
- Holly Point: 12.1 mi
- York River Cliffs: 16.7 mi
- Mintonville Point: 19.8 mi
- Brock Point: 20.9 mi
- Mount Trashmore: 19.2 mi
- Encore Hill: 19.4 mi
- Knob Hill: 20.4 mi
- White Hill: 20.6 mi
- The Isaacs: 22.3 mi
- Keeper's House: 3.7 mi
- Old Point Comfort Lighthouse: 3.7 mi
- Old Cape Henry Lighthouse: 20.7 mi
- Cape Henry Lighthouse: 20.8 mi
- Picnic Shelter #1: 15.6 mi
- Picnic Shelter #3: 15.9 mi
- Picnic Area: 20.6 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Y H Thomas Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Trashmore | SE 138° | 18 m | 19.2 mi |
| White Hill | ESE 117° | 10 m | 20.6 mi |
| Knob Hill | SW 215° | 8 m | 20.4 mi |
| The Isaacs | E 81° | 2 m | 22.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:43 | 19:17 |
| June solstice | 05:47 | 19:50 | 20:29 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:12 | 16:53 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 43 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 75 | 79 | 78 | 72 | 61 | 51 | 44 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 2.9 | 4.4 | 3.3 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 5.3 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Langley AFB, 3 mi away.
- Eastern Gray Squirrel2,051 obs
- Mallard932 obs
- Northern Mockingbird696 obs
- white clover645 obs
- American Robin466 obs
- Canada Goose446 obs
- Great Blue Heron394 obs
- European Starling344 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 node/356605340
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