Ball Hill
Ball Hill rises to 196 m in Connecticut. Paulk Hill stands 294 m to the northwest, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque, a historic site 0.4 miles away. Connecticut State Route 169 passes 16 miles off.
The story
mountain in the United States of America
Wikidata Q31807572, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 196 m
How to reach it
- 15.8 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 19.8 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 9.6 mi off the Revolutionary Heritage Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Carrick A. McLaughlin plaque: 0.4 mi
- Captain Nathan Hale Monument: 2.6 mi
- Old root cellar: 2.6 mi
- Chaffeeville Silk Mill: 2.9 mi
- dog memorial: 4.4 mi
- Dunham Woods Preserve: 0.4 mi
- Farmstead Road Open Space: 0.5 mi
- Owen's Mere: 0.6 mi
- Costello Circle Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Hillyndale Road Open Space: 0.9 mi
- Eagleville Pond Boat Launch: 0.9 mi
- Pine Lake Community Club: 1.0 mi
- The Thomas and Bette Wolff Family Park: 1.4 mi
- Mansfield Town Square: 1.6 mi
- Spring Hill Fields: 1.8 mi
- J. Robert Donnelly Husky Heritage Sports Museum: 1.4 mi
- William Benton Museum of Art: 1.6 mi
- Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry: 1.6 mi
- Hellenic Museum: 1.7 mi
- Mansfield Historical Society: 2.1 mi
- Horsebarn Hill: 2.2 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 2.9 mi
- Wolf Rock: 3.4 mi
- Riley Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Wormwood Hill: 4.2 mi
- Jonathan the Husky Statue: 1.4 mi
- Dove Tower and Inverted Pyramid: 1.4 mi
- The Fallen: 1.5 mi
- Stone Book Universe: 1.5 mi
- UConn Seal: 1.5 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 0.8 mi
- Horticulture Garden: 1.6 mi
- School of Pharmacy Medicinal Garden: 1.6 mi
- Schwenk Family Garden: 1.7 mi
- Mansfield Community Garden: 2.4 mi
- Cascades: 1.9 mi
- Cascades: 2.0 mi
- Codfish Falls: 3.2 mi
- Diana's Pool Falls: 6.9 mi
- Hockanum Falls: 10.8 mi
- Wolf Rock: 3.3 mi
- Old Porcelain Mine: 6.5 mi
- March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road: 8.6 mi
- filled-in well: 10.0 mi
- Bigelow Brook Farm: 11.3 mi
- Halls Pond Beach: 5.1 mi
- Sandy Beach: 11.4 mi
- Staffordville Beach: 14.4 mi
- Woodstock Town Beach: 20.2 mi
- Moosup Pond Beach: 20.9 mi
- Fifty Foot Cliff: 2.6 mi
- Wolf Rock Cliff: 3.3 mi
- Coney Rock: 3.4 mi
- Flag Rock: 9.5 mi
- Crow Point: 19.0 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 7.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 7.5 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 23.0 mi
- Gay City State Park: 10.0 mi
- Bara-Hack: 14.5 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 23.0 mi
- Windham Spring: 5.3 mi
- Picnic: 18.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 10.6 miles of Ball Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paulk Hill | NW 316° | 294 m | 9.0 mi |
| Whifford Hill | N 2° | 291 m | 7.2 mi |
| Westford Hill | NNE 22° | 290 m | 9.4 mi |
| Kendall Hill | NNW 331° | 290 m | 10.5 mi |
| Grant Hill | WNW 288° | 284 m | 6.6 mi |
| Sugar Hill | NW 323° | 282 m | 9.2 mi |
| Reed Hill | WNW 299° | 275 m | 8.2 mi |
| Parker Mountain | N 4° | 275 m | 8.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:53 | 18:25 | 19:01 |
| June solstice | 05:15 | 19:46 | 20:28 |
| September equinox | 06:37 | 18:11 | 18:48 |
| December solstice | 07:14 | 15:37 | 16:22 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 29 | 36 | 48 | 58 | 66 | 72 | 70 | 63 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Storrs, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 212604 — Ball Hill, Capitol County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359272582
Day trips start here
- Storrs · 2 mi
- Willimantic · 5 mi
- Tolland · 8 mi
- Mystic-Eastern · 13 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 15 mi
- Union · 15 mi
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