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Black Ball Hill

Black Ball Hill, a peak in Massachusetts
Black Ball Hill, a peak in MassachusettsCaptainAhab1841 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Black Ball Hill rises to 45 m in Massachusetts. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the east-northeast, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Conservation Land/So Yarmouth, a nature reserve 0.4 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) runs past it.

What the record says

Elevation
45 m

How to reach it

Coordinates41.73011, -70.19030

Named places within 25 miles

Beaches
Peaks
  • Signal Hill: 0.5 mi
  • Hokum Rock: 0.8 mi
  • Scargo Hill: 0.8 mi
  • German hill: 2.9 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 4.0 mi
Parks
  • Nobscussett Park: 0.5 mi
  • Scargo Park: 1.0 mi
  • Grays Beach: 2.4 mi
  • Johnny Kelley Park: 2.6 mi
  • Peter Homer Park: 3.4 mi
Historic sites: 46
Nature reserves: 44
  • Conservation Land/So Yarmouth: 0.4 mi
  • Howe Site: 0.6 mi
  • Conservation Land/New Boston R: 0.6 mi
  • Sundall Land: 0.7 mi
  • Chase Garden Creek: 0.7 mi
Museums: 40
Artworks: 29
Attractions: 19
Gardens: 13
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Garden: 8.9 mi
  • Shirley Cross Wildflower Garden: 14.4 mi
  • Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 14.5 mi
  • Mashpee Community Garden: 16.2 mi
  • McInnes Garden: 16.2 mi
Cliffs: 9
Picnic sites: 4
  • Picnick Area: 9.0 mi
  • Hardings Beach Picnic Area: 10.7 mi
  • Herring Run Recreational Area: 19.3 mi
  • Bourne Recreation Area: 20.5 mi
Lighthouses: 4
Rest areas: 3
  • truck pull-off: 2.7 mi
  • Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 5.9 mi
  • Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 22.0 mi
Ghost towns: 1

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 23.2 miles of Black Ball Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Deer Park HillENE165 m8.2 mi
Pine HillW93 m19.4 mi
Telegraph HillW85 m15.2 mi
Flatrock HillW82 m18.0 mi
Avery HillW80 m19.0 mi
Discovery HillW77 m14.3 mi
Deer Horn HillWSW71 m21.1 mi
Mountain HillWNW61 m20.3 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4518:1618:53
June solstice05:0719:3720:20
September equinox06:2918:0318:40
December solstice07:0515:2916:14

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F323338475766737264554537
Precip in3.93.24.33.93.43.12.73.33.84.34.14.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hyannis Barnstable Muni AP, 6 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

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OpenStreetMap element node/358274828

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