Brierpatch Mountain
Brierpatch Mountain rises to 1,348 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the northeast, 4.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Job Knob, a peak 1.6 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 17 miles off.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q31512164, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,348 m
How to reach it
- 17.4 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 19.4 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 26.8 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 27.7 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Job Knob: 1.6 mi
- Brushheap Knob: 2.7 mi
- High Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Haines Knob: 3.6 mi
- Green Knob: 4.1 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 6.9 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 8.1 mi
- Bear Heaven Recreation Area: 9.0 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 9.7 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 10.1 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 5.3 mi
- Small waterfall: 8.3 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 8.6 mi
- Elakala Falls: 14.9 mi
- Blackwater Falls: 15.4 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 9.1 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 9.3 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 10.1 mi
- Pat Spring: 11.1 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 14.1 mi
- Stringtown: 7.2 mi
- Mill Run: 8.6 mi
- Smoke Hole: 12.9 mi
- Gertrude: 21.0 mi
- Kempton: 21.8 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 8.9 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 16.6 mi
- Wilson Monument: 17.7 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 18.0 mi
- Stony River Dam: 20.7 mi
- Lower Slabs: 9.1 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 9.1 mi
- Southern Pillar: 9.2 mi
- Eagle Rock: 13.1 mi
- Raven Rocks: 22.2 mi
- Sites Homestead: 8.8 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 8.8 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 17.9 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 19.5 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 11.3 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 15.6 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 21.0 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 9.1 mi
- Locust Springs: 22.2 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 9.5 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 16.4 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 17.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.9 miles of Brierpatch Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | NE 53° | 1,452 m | 4.3 mi |
| Green Knob | E 83° | 1,424 m | 4.1 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SSW 209° | 1,410 m | 11.9 mi |
| Haystack Knob | ENE 79° | 1,376 m | 4.5 mi |
| Horse Rock | S 174° | 1,374 m | 9.6 mi |
| Weiss Knob | NE 34° | 1,359 m | 8.5 mi |
| Job Knob | S 185° | 1,353 m | 1.6 mi |
| Bald Knob | NNE 32° | 1,332 m | 9.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:55 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 28 | 36 | 46 | 55 | 62 | 65 | 64 | 59 | 49 | 39 | 31 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.4 | 5.3 | 5.1 | 5.8 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins 21 ENE, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356523307
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