Fort Hill
Fort Hill rises to 69 m in Connecticut. Wintechog Hill stands 139 m to the north-northeast, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Merritt Family Forest, a nature reserve 0.3 miles away. State Routes 49 & 14A passes 10.0 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31807938, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 69 m
How to reach it
- 10.0 mi off the State Routes 49 & 14A
- 17.7 mi off the Connecticut State Route 169, National
- 17.8 mi off the North Fork Trail
- 19.7 mi off the Shannock Road
Overlooks nearby
- Bluff Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Merritt Family Forest: 0.3 mi
- Jabez Smith Homestead: 1.0 mi
- Kiely Park: 1.0 mi
- Clipper Court Open Space: 1.1 mi
- Beebe Pond Park: 1.2 mi
- Hazelnut Hill: 0.9 mi
- Pequot Hill: 2.0 mi
- Pine Hill: 2.1 mi
- Shack Hill: 2.5 mi
- Long Hill: 2.8 mi
- Haley Farm Barn: 1.1 mi
- Noank Remembers Memorial Bell: 1.5 mi
- Gov. John Winthrop Jr. Homestead: 2.0 mi
- Avery Memorial Monument: 2.2 mi
- Mystic Civil War Memorial: 2.5 mi
- Groton Beach: 1.5 mi
- Noank Town Dock Beach: 2.1 mi
- Austrailia Beach: 2.5 mi
- Bluff Point Beach: 2.6 mi
- Bushy Point Beach: 2.6 mi
- Sylvan Street Museum & Research Center/Mary C. Anderson Building: 2.0 mi
- Mystic Museum of Art: 2.1 mi
- Mystic River Scale Model: 2.5 mi
- Children's Museum: 2.6 mi
- Thompson Exhibition Building: 2.7 mi
- Sutton Park: 0.6 mi
- Bel-Aire Playground: 0.7 mi
- Poquonnock Plains Park: 0.7 mi
- Central Avenue Park: 0.8 mi
- Raheem Ali Carter Memorial Park: 0.8 mi
- Large Glacial Erratic: 4.1 mi
- The Whale: 4.3 mi
- Platt-Lords View-Stillman Marshes: 4.4 mi
- Ledyard Oak Site: 5.6 mi
- Dinosaur Tracks: 5.7 mi
- John Kelley Statue: 2.1 mi
- Mystic Blue: 2.6 mi
- Mjolnir: 3.3 mi
- Giant Gnome: 3.3 mi
- Penguin: 3.6 mi
- Bertholf Plaza: 5.1 mi
- Caroline Black Garden: 5.2 mi
- Wildflower Garden: 5.5 mi
- Sprout Garden: 5.5 mi
- Laurel Walk: 5.6 mi
- Silver Falls: 11.7 mi
- Yantic Falls: 13.5 mi
- Chapman Falls: 19.6 mi
- Ayer's Gap Falls: 20.9 mi
- Little Muk Falls: 22.0 mi
- Candlewood Ledge: 18.0 mi
- Crow Head: 18.3 mi
- Ram Head: 23.3 mi
- Pine Ledge: 23.5 mi
- Acabonack Cliff: 23.8 mi
- Powder House: 5.6 mi
- Skate Hut: 5.6 mi
- Picnic Pavilion: 17.9 mi
- Little Nini Pavillion: 18.1 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse Museum: 8.5 mi
- Watch Hill Lighthouse: 8.5 mi
- Oil Shed: 8.5 mi
- Saybrook Breakwater Light: 18.2 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (North Bound): 2.7 mi
- Rest Area I-395 (South Bound): 10.3 mi
- Rest Area I-95 (South Bound): 22.9 mi
- Old Spring: 5.1 mi
- Factory Pond: 21.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.4 miles of Fort Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wintechog Hill | NNE 30° | 139 m | 9.0 mi |
| Church Hill | N 4° | 120 m | 7.5 mi |
| Lantern Hill | NNE 24° | 118 m | 8.5 mi |
| Konomoc Hill | WNW 296° | 112 m | 9.1 mi |
| Pie Hill | NW 315° | 109 m | 9.2 mi |
| Gungywamp Hill | NNW 329° | 108 m | 4.3 mi |
| Vinegar Hill | NNW 336° | 108 m | 5.8 mi |
| Haughton Mountain | NW 323° | 103 m | 8.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:24 | 19:00 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:44 | 20:26 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:11 | 18:47 |
| December solstice | 07:11 | 15:38 | 16:22 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 31 | 33 | 40 | 49 | 58 | 67 | 73 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Groton, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 207144 — Fort Hill, Southeastern Connecticut County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359263190
Day trips start here
- Groton · 1 mi
- Mystic · 2 mi
- New London · 5 mi
- Ledyard · 6 mi
- Stonington · 6 mi
- Waterford · 7 mi
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