Birch Hill
Birch Hill rises to 230 m in Connecticut. Johnnycake Mountain stands 354 m to the north, 8.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Wood Key Hill, a peak 0.7 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 27 miles off.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q31807636, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 230 m
How to reach it
- 26.8 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Wood Key Hill: 0.7 mi
- Clinton Hill: 1.1 mi
- Lane Hill: 1.4 mi
- Mount Tobe: 1.5 mi
- Bucks Hill: 1.6 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 1.2 mi
- Cascade: 1.7 mi
- Cascade: 3.2 mi
- Cascades: 4.9 mi
- Knife Shop Falls: 6.2 mi
- Buttermilk Falls Nature Preserve: 1.2 mi
- Peterson Park: 2.3 mi
- Wolcott Dog Park: 2.4 mi
- Bucks Hill Park: 2.7 mi
- Sunrise Park: 2.9 mi
- Camp Mattatuck: 1.2 mi
- American Italian Civic Club Park: 2.9 mi
- Russell Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Sylvan Lake Park: 3.3 mi
- Lake Winfield Recreation Area: 3.5 mi
- Lock Museum of America: 3.4 mi
- Railroad Museum of New England: 3.8 mi
- Imagine Nation Children's Museum: 4.8 mi
- Bristol Memorial Military Museum: 4.9 mi
- New England Carousel Museum: 5.1 mi
- Edward G Swicklas Employee Garden: 4.2 mi
- Bristol Spanish War Veterans Monument: 4.3 mi
- James P. Casey plaque: 4.9 mi
- Soldiers' Monument: 5.2 mi
- Veterans Monument: 5.2 mi
- Japanese Garden: 6.2 mi
- Sustainable Garden: 6.2 mi
- Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 6.2 mi
- Biblical Garden: 6.2 mi
- Shakespeare Garden: 6.2 mi
- Rock House: 3.5 mi
- Libby's Lump: 4.6 mi
- Tory's Den: 6.2 mi
- Boynton Butterfly Garden: 7.9 mi
- Lamothe Sugar House: 8.5 mi
- Ben Franklin: 5.4 mi
- Whale Sculpture: 5.4 mi
- Maori Head: 5.5 mi
- Greetings from Waterbury: 5.5 mi
- Home: 12.6 mi
- Whitestone Cliffs: 1.8 mi
- Satan's Dog Bowl: 3.6 mi
- Ravens Roost: 6.1 mi
- Petro Cliffs: 6.2 mi
- Green Wall: 10.9 mi
- Boating Side: 1.0 mi
- Waterfront: 1.0 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 6.2 mi
- Sandy Beach: 11.0 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 11.2 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 7.2 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 15.4 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 17.2 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 24.3 mi
- Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 24.3 mi
- Hermit spring: 16.7 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 19.9 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 20.2 mi
- Cold Spring: 21.8 mi
- Big Spring: 22.3 mi
- Picnic Grove: 1.1 mi
- Pond View: 24.4 mi
- The Rotary Pavilion: 24.5 mi
- Oak Grove: 24.7 mi
- Dudley Town: 21.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Birch Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johnnycake Mountain | N 9° | 354 m | 8.6 mi |
| Guernsey Hill | NW 314° | 346 m | 8.0 mi |
| South Mountain | ENE 72° | 313 m | 4.0 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | E 101° | 312 m | 3.0 mi |
| Camp Hill | NW 314° | 311 m | 6.8 mi |
| Lattin Hill | NW 310° | 310 m | 5.9 mi |
| Walnut Hill | NW 307° | 307 m | 5.9 mi |
| Clinton Hill | SE 143° | 303 m | 1.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:49 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:15 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
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 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Burlington, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 205514 — Birch Hill, Naugatuck Valley County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359260299
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