Fords Hill
Fords Hill rises to 860 m in New York. Millbrook Ridge stands 1,080 m to the southeast, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is Grays Mountain, a peak 0.5 miles away. Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (Route 97) passes 27 miles off.
The story
Fords Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York southeast of Bovina Center. Fords Hill is located south of Mount Pisgah.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q34822217, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 860 m
How to reach it
- 27.4 mi off the Upper Delaware Scenic Byway (Route 97)
Named places within 25 miles
- Davis Hollow Unit: 1.3 mi
- Palmer Hill Unit: 1.3 mi
- Meekers Hill Unit: 2.1 mi
- Lower Dingle Hill Unit: 2.3 mi
- Dingle Hill Unit: 3.7 mi
- Grays Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Dingle Hill: 0.9 mi
- Farmers Hill: 1.0 mi
- Little Pisgah Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Meekers Hill: 2.6 mi
- Fleischmann Athletic Park: 10.7 mi
- Delhi Community Park: 11.2 mi
- Kirkside Park: 12.1 mi
- Smith Park: 13.9 mi
- Covered Bridge Park: 14.4 mi
- Tompkins Falls: 6.9 mi
- Stratton Falls: 9.5 mi
- Wildcat Falls: 14.5 mi
- Russell Brook Falls: 15.9 mi
- High Falls: 17.4 mi
- Coykendall Lodge (Ruin): 9.1 mi
- Cat Hollow Legend: 12.7 mi
- Handen Covered Bridge: 12.7 mi
- ETS Relay (Ruin): 13.6 mi
- Pine Hill Honor Roll: 13.8 mi
- Zadock Pratt Museum: 18.6 mi
- Pratt Museum: 18.6 mi
- Hanford Mills Museum: 18.7 mi
- Roscoe O&W Museum: 18.9 mi
- Red Hill Observer's Cabin & Museum: 20.8 mi
- VanTran Covered Bridge: 18.5 mi
- Pratt Rock: 18.9 mi
- White Rock: 19.2 mi
- Rail Explorers: 23.2 mi
- World's Largest Kaleidoscope: 24.9 mi
- Money Point: 13.9 mi
- Pratt Rocks: 19.4 mi
- Giant Ledge: 20.1 mi
- Cornell Crack: 23.1 mi
- Winnisook: 16.0 mi
- Beamoc Trout: 18.9 mi
- Shandaken Eagle: 22.7 mi
- statue of liberty replica: 25.0 mi
- Piped Spring: 9.3 mi
- Table Mountain Spring: 22.5 mi
- Roscoe: 18.2 mi
- East Branch Rest Area: 24.8 mi
- Belleayre Beach: 14.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.4 miles of Fords Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Millbrook Ridge | SE 146° | 1,080 m | 10.1 mi |
| Dry Brook Ridge | ESE 121° | 1,058 m | 8.3 mi |
| Woodpecker Ridge | SE 145° | 1,057 m | 11.3 mi |
| North Plattekill | NNE 28° | 1,021 m | 8.7 mi |
| Mount Pisgah | N 7° | 1,018 m | 3.3 mi |
| Plattekill Mountain | NE 37° | 996 m | 8.0 mi |
| Cradle Rock Ridge | SSE 156° | 963 m | 10.4 mi |
| Red Kill Ridge | ENE 70° | 948 m | 11.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:03 | 18:34 | 19:11 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:57 | 20:39 |
| September equinox | 06:47 | 18:21 | 18:58 |
| December solstice | 07:25 | 15:45 | 16:31 |
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 | 24 | 32 | 44 | 55 | 63 | 67 | 66 | 59 | 48 | 37 | 28 |
| Precip in | 3.2 | 2.8 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Delhi 2 SE, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357560092
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