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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

Nature reserves
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
Beaches
  • Mayflower Beach: 1.5 mi
  • Bayview Beach: 1.6 mi
  • Mayflower Beach: 1.7 mi
  • Dunes Landing Beach: 1.7 mi
  • Horsefoot Path Beach: 1.8 mi
Historic sites: 50
Museums: 41
Artworks: 29
Attractions: 20
Gardens: 14
  • 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
Rest areas: 11
  • truck pull-off: 2.7 mi
  • rest area: 2.7 mi
  • truck pull-off: 3.4 mi
  • truck pull-off: 4.0 mi
  • Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 5.9 mi
Cliffs: 9
Lighthouses: 7
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
Ghost towns: 1

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.8 miles of Black Ball Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Deer Park HillENE 76°165 m8.2 mi
Pine HillW 266°93 m19.4 mi
Telegraph HillW 271°85 m15.2 mi
Flatrock HillW 275°82 m18.0 mi
Avery HillW 271°80 m19.0 mi
Discovery HillW 269°77 m14.3 mi
Deer Horn HillWSW 257°71 m21.1 mi
Discovery HillW 277°61 m19.0 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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