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Buttermilk Hill

Buttermilk Hill, seen from above at true elevation

Buttermilk Hill rises to 197 m in New York. Frost Hill stands 696 m to the south-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Young Hill, a peak 1.6 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 18 miles off.

The story

mountain in United States of America

Wikidata Q34807296, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
197 m

How to reach it

Coordinates42.98201, -77.28776

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks
  • Meeting House: 1.8 mi
  • Farmington Town Park: 2.0 mi
  • Farmbrook Park: 3.0 mi
  • Jones-Blunt Park: 3.5 mi
  • Budd Park: 3.6 mi
Attractions
  • Original Stafford Schoolhouse: 3.1 mi
  • Rockwell Family Home Site: 3.4 mi
  • William Stafford Home: 3.5 mi
  • Russell Stoddard Sawmill & Dam: 3.6 mi
  • Quaker Meeting House: 3.6 mi
Historic sites
Artworks
  • Elmer: 7.8 mi
  • FLTG Golfball: 9.5 mi
  • American Eagle: 12.4 mi
  • Rebecca Well: 12.5 mi
  • Faith Hope and Charity: 12.6 mi
Museums: 38
Gardens: 32
  • North Entrance/Exit Area (Exit lane Side Bed): 7.4 mi
  • North Entrance/Exit Lane Employee Parking Side Turf Area: 7.5 mi
  • Noth Entrance/Exit Lane Turf Area Customer Parking Area: 7.5 mi
  • Windscreen Island #6: 7.5 mi
  • South Entrance/Exit Lane Bed (Entrance Lane Side): 7.5 mi
Waterfalls: 10
  • Upper Falls: 13.8 mi
  • Honeoye Falls: 15.5 mi
  • Postcard Falls: 15.5 mi
  • Densmore Falls: 19.5 mi
  • Upper Falls: 20.0 mi
Beaches: 4
  • Kershaw Beach: 7.5 mi
  • Kershaw Park Small Marine Craft Launch Area: 7.5 mi
  • Bristol Harbour Beach: 16.4 mi
  • Windsor Beach: 24.4 mi
Cliffs: 3
Lighthouses: 2
Springs: 1
  • Klippel Spring: 19.0 mi

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 20.7 miles of Buttermilk Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Frost HillSSW 203°696 m20.3 mi
Gannett HillSSW 197°690 m20.4 mi
Worden HillSSW 202°666 m18.7 mi
Quail HillSSW 206°654 m19.8 mi
Stid HillSSW 197°635 m17.0 mi
South HillS 186°575 m19.7 mi
Johnson HillSSW 196°538 m14.9 mi
Bare HillS 184°470 m17.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1318:4419:21
June solstice05:3120:0920:52
September equinox06:5718:3119:08
December solstice07:3815:5216:38

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F252734455867727064524131
Precip in1.91.82.63.23.13.64.13.33.13.52.62.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Canandaigua 3 S, 10 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 945376 — Buttermilk Hill, Ontario County, New York.

OpenStreetMap element node/357551817

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