Dam Hill
Dam Hill rises to 385 m in Pennsylvania. Osterhout Mountain stands 589 m to the south-southwest, 6.6 miles off. The nearest named place is Pompey Hill, a peak 0.8 miles away. Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway passes 2.2 miles off.
The story
mountain in Pennsylvania, United States of America
Wikidata Q49023549, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 385 m
How to reach it
- 2.2 mi off the Viaduct Valley Way Scenic Byway
- 6.0 mi off the Gateway to the Endless Mountains
- 18.5 mi off the Governor Casey Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Scenic Overlook (Carbondale) · 20 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Pompey Hill: 0.8 mi
- Vargo Hill: 1.4 mi
- Seely Hill: 1.5 mi
- Squire Hill: 1.5 mi
- Mulligan Hill: 2.2 mi
- Tom Bell Park: 4.0 mi
- Nordahl Park: 4.2 mi
- Lazy Brook Park: 5.5 mi
- Creekside Park: 5.8 mi
- Christy Mathewson Park: 5.9 mi
- H. James Saxton and Donald Sherwood monument: 4.5 mi
- Caboose: 10.3 mi
- AT&T Long Lines RANSOM Facility Historical Site: 14.7 mi
- A Tribute to Anthracite Coal Miners: 16.7 mi
- WW1, WW1, Korean War: 17.7 mi
- Little Rocky Glen Preserve: 5.3 mi
- Gateway Preserve: 9.3 mi
- Ziegler Preserve: 9.3 mi
- Gardner Spencer Preserve: 9.5 mi
- Quarry Ridge Preserve: 10.1 mi
- Anthracite Museum: 16.5 mi
- Lackawana Coal Mine Tour: 16.6 mi
- Houdini Museum: 17.1 mi
- Electric City Trolley Museum: 18.1 mi
- 1902 Roundhouse & Technology Museum: 18.3 mi
- Nittany Lion Shrine: 18.2 mi
- Worthington Scranton Statue: 18.2 mi
- Faith - Hope - Love Veterans Memorial: 18.5 mi
- Jason Miller: 18.5 mi
- 'The Office' Mural: 18.5 mi
- Tunkhannock Viaduct: 4.6 mi
- Red Barn Village Mini-Golf: 12.7 mi
- A Very Old Barn: 19.6 mi
- Tundra Tornado: 21.9 mi
- Iceberg Alley Luge: 21.9 mi
- Prayer Garden: 18.3 mi
- Mulberry Plaza: 18.7 mi
- Lower Quad: 18.8 mi
- Upper Quad: 18.9 mi
- R. N, Davis Memorial Garden: 19.4 mi
- Salt Springs: 19.5 mi
- The Salt Spring: 19.6 mi
- Spencer Spring: 24.0 mi
- Nay Aug Falls: 19.6 mi
- Rattlesnake Falls: 24.7 mi
- Roadside Rest: 11.6 mi
- Campbell's Ledge: 18.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.7 miles of Dam Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Osterhout Mountain | SSW 195° | 589 m | 6.6 mi |
| East Mountain | SSE 168° | 475 m | 6.1 mi |
| Dean Hill | N 355° | 470 m | 8.0 mi |
| Prospect Hill | SW 233° | 462 m | 6.2 mi |
| Florey Knob | WSW 251° | 461 m | 7.6 mi |
| Post Hill | S 184° | 449 m | 9.4 mi |
| Middle Mountain | S 176° | 446 m | 5.8 mi |
| Round Hill | NE 46° | 443 m | 7.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:39 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:30 | 20:00 | 20:42 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 15:52 | 16:37 |
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 | 22 | 23 | 31 | 43 | 55 | 64 | 68 | 67 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 27 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Montrose, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1172905 — Dam Hill, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania.
OpenStreetMap element node/357282651
Day trips start here
- Factoryville · 6 mi
- Endless Mountains · 7 mi
- Clarks Summit · 13 mi
- Scranton · 18 mi
- Dunmore · 19 mi
- Northeastern Pennsylvania · 24 mi
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