Birch Hill
Birch Hill rises to 133 m in Connecticut. Preston Hill stands 442 m to the west-northwest, 1.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Lower Segar Mountain, a peak 0.7 miles away.
The story
Mountain in the United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807637, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 133 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Lower Segar Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Spooner Hill: 1.2 mi
- Chapel Pond Hill: 1.4 mi
- Leonard Mountain: 1.4 mi
- Segar Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Kent Commons Park: 1.7 mi
- Kent Green: 2.2 mi
- Charlie Jones Veterans Memorial Park: 3.6 mi
- Fireman's Field: 3.9 mi
- Emanuel Williamson Park: 4.2 mi
- Emery Park: 1.6 mi
- Alice McCallister Memorial Sanctuary: 2.3 mi
- Herrick Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Iron Mountain Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Kent Mountain Preserve: 3.6 mi
- Charcoal Hearth: 1.7 mi
- Jim Hulton: 5.7 mi
- Lois Batchelder: 6.9 mi
- Mill Ruins: 7.2 mi
- Lime Kiln: 13.1 mi
- Sloane-Stanley Museum: 3.0 mi
- Northrop House: 8.4 mi
- New Milford Historical Society Museum: 9.2 mi
- Gunn Memorial Museum: 10.4 mi
- Institute for American Indian Studies: 10.6 mi
- Kent Falls: 6.6 mi
- New Preston Falls: 7.2 mi
- Hatch Brook Falls: 10.9 mi
- Quaker Brook Falls: 11.5 mi
- Pine Swamp Brook Falls: 13.1 mi
- Judea Garden: 8.2 mi
- Innisfree Garden: 14.0 mi
- Personal Gardens: 14.4 mi
- Orintas Family Butterfly Garden & Viewing Stand: 17.5 mi
- Gertrude Jekyll Garden: 18.3 mi
- Dover Stone Church: 5.7 mi
- New Milford Tank: 9.4 mi
- Peter's Forge: 10.3 mi
- Indian village: 10.6 mi
- Gagarin Grove: 11.8 mi
- Sherman Town Beach: 8.8 mi
- Holiday Point Community Beach: 9.1 mi
- Pine Ledge: 11.8 mi
- Morris Town Beach: 13.8 mi
- Sandy Beach: 14.5 mi
- Pine Ledge: 1.3 mi
- Grand Staircase: 1.9 mi
- Kelly Slide: 8.3 mi
- Lovers Leap: 11.8 mi
- Bethel Rock: 18.5 mi
- Jean Widmark: 14.6 mi
- greek letter pi: 19.8 mi
- Lesser Evil: 20.0 mi
- Evelyn Rimai Fisher Sculpture: 22.8 mi
- P.T. Barnum: 23.0 mi
- Stormville Rest Area: 15.9 mi
- East Fishkill Rest Area: 15.9 mi
- Danbury Rest Area: 21.5 mi
- Dudley Town: 10.4 mi
- Dicktown: 21.3 mi
- Princess circle picnic site: 22.6 mi
- Picnic Grove: 23.6 mi
- Bulls Bridge Road: 1.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 6.8 miles of Birch Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preston Hill | WNW 299° | 442 m | 1.6 mi |
| North Preston Hill | NW 323° | 441 m | 1.9 mi |
| Bromica Mountain | NE 53° | 428 m | 5.2 mi |
| Chapel Pond Hill | NNW 334° | 426 m | 1.4 mi |
| Mauwee Peak | NE 46° | 426 m | 4.8 mi |
| Cobble Mountain | N 355° | 426 m | 5.4 mi |
| Huckleberry Hill | ENE 64° | 426 m | 6.3 mi |
| Flanders Mountain | NE 42° | 422 m | 5.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:30 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:20 | 19:51 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:18 | 15:42 | 16:27 |
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 | 25 | 28 | 36 | 47 | 58 | 66 | 71 | 69 | 62 | 51 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Millbrook 3 W, 14 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 205515 — Birch Hill, Northwest Hills County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359260302
Day trips start here
- Putnam County · 23 mi
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