Black Knob
Black Knob rises to 1,291 m in North Carolina. Little Pisgah Mountain stands 1,341 m to the south, 4.3 miles off. The nearest named place is High Windy, a peak 0.7 miles away. Black Mountain Rag passes 2.8 miles off. 57 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31423899, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,291 m
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 4.2 mi off the Drovers Road
- 7.5 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 16.3 mi off the French Broad Overview
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Youth Center Park: 3.9 mi
- Grovemont Park: 4.0 mi
- Lake Tomahawk Park: 4.1 mi
- Riverwalk Park: 4.1 mi
- Town Square: 4.2 mi
- Tom's Falls: 5.6 mi
- Davids Falls: 5.6 mi
- Upper Catawba Falls: 6.1 mi
- Catawba Falls: 6.3 mi
- Broad River Falls: 6.3 mi
- High Windy: 0.7 mi
- Jesses High Top: 1.3 mi
- Spring Mountain: 1.5 mi
- High Top: 1.5 mi
- Dyeleaf Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton: 5.1 mi
- Potato House: 9.7 mi
- Caretaker's Cabin: 9.7 mi
- The Den: 9.7 mi
- Tool Shed: 9.7 mi
- Columbarium Garden: 1.9 mi
- Dr. John Wilson Community Garden: 3.1 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 10.4 mi
- Spring Garden: 11.7 mi
- Azalea Garden: 11.7 mi
- Swannanoa Valley Museum: 4.0 mi
- Mountain Gateway Museum: 10.3 mi
- Old Fort Railroad Museum: 10.3 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 11.8 mi
- Asheville Art Museum: 11.8 mi
- Blue Ridge Assembly: 2.7 mi
- Tebbé Davies Fine Art Studios: 8.3 mi
- Statue of Diana: 11.5 mi
- Wake: 11.9 mi
- Deco Gecko: 12.0 mi
- McDowell Tourism Authority: 10.3 mi
- Grady's Animal Discovery Den: 10.7 mi
- Ironland: 12.0 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 12.4 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 13.0 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 5.4 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 8.3 mi
- Rocky Knob: 9.9 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 10.5 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 11.3 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 8.0 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 9.3 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 10.5 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 11.7 mi
- The Pinnacles: 11.9 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 2.9 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 10.7 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 10.8 mi
- Lenox Spring: 18.8 mi
- Crystal Spring: 19.1 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 13.9 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 14.0 mi
- Marion Rest Area - Eastbound: 19.1 mi
- Marion Rest Area - Westbound: 19.1 mi
- McDowell County Rest Area: 19.2 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 15.0 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 18.7 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 20.0 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 16.8 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 23.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Black Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Little Pisgah Mountain | S 171° | 1,341 m | 4.3 mi |
| Jesses High Top | NNW 331° | 1,326 m | 1.3 mi |
| High Windy | NE 34° | 1,321 m | 0.7 mi |
| Bearwallow Mountain | S 186° | 1,281 m | 7.0 mi |
| Brushy Knob | NNE 15° | 1,274 m | 6.9 mi |
| High Top | NE 36° | 1,263 m | 1.5 mi |
| High Hickory Knob | WNW 290° | 1,231 m | 3.0 mi |
| Blue Rock Knob | SSE 156° | 1,225 m | 4.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:41 | 17:21 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 36 | 42 | 52 | 60 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 62 | 53 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Swannanoa 2 SSE, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1009436 — Black Knob, Buncombe County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357800808
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- Asheville · 12 mi
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