Foster Knob
Foster Knob rises to 866 m in Virginia. Bald Knob stands 1,327 m to the east-southeast, 7.8 miles off. The nearest named place is White Rock Mountain, a peak 2.7 miles away. Farm Heritage Road passes 6.6 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Giles County, Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49030180, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 866 m
How to reach it
- 6.6 mi off the Farm Heritage Road
- 29.8 mi off the Midland Trail, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Pembroke Boat Ramp: 6.2 mi
- White Rock Recreation Area: 9.2 mi
- Mill Creek Nature Park: 9.3 mi
- Camp Success Campground: 9.4 mi
- Veteran's Memorial Park: 9.6 mi
- White Rock Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Butt Mountain: 3.2 mi
- Lookoff Rock: 3.5 mi
- Brushy Top: 3.5 mi
- Locust Knob: 5.7 mi
- Andrew Johnston House: 6.5 mi
- St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall: 17.7 mi
- Smithfield Plantation: 18.0 mi
- Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation: 18.3 mi
- Second Creek Mill: 21.5 mi
- Wake Forest Kentland Slave Memorial: 14.9 mi
- Prices Fork Research Center Building - Architecture - Former.: 16.3 mi
- Winfrey’s Rock: 17.7 mi
- April 16th Memorial: 17.9 mi
- VTCC WW1 and April 16th Memorial: 18.0 mi
- Coal Mining Memorial Coal Carts: 15.1 mi
- Modern Art: 16.3 mi
- Perspective Gallery: 18.0 mi
- Frank Beamer Statue: 18.5 mi
- Ode to Jeff Gordon: 19.7 mi
- Chestnut Ridge Natural Area Preserve: 11.0 mi
- Clover Hollow Natural Area Preserve: 11.8 mi
- Niday Place State Forest: 14.6 mi
- Chestnut Ridge State Natural Area Preserve: 20.3 mi
- Brush Creek Preserve: 22.3 mi
- Hahn Horticultural Garden: 18.3 mi
- Radford Alumni Memorial Garden: 19.2 mi
- Piedmont Vegetable Garden: 19.9 mi
- Volvo Break Area Indoor Garden: 22.7 mi
- Break Area Indoor Garden and Gazebo: 22.8 mi
- Barneys Wall: 4.8 mi
- Barney's Wall: 4.8 mi
- Bear Cliffs: 8.5 mi
- Bear Cliff: 8.7 mi
- High Point: 13.8 mi
- Junta: 12.4 mi
- Mercers Saltworks: 13.0 mi
- Warford: 16.2 mi
- Egypt: 17.2 mi
- Lilly: 21.1 mi
- Keffer Oak: 16.3 mi
- Eastern Continental Divide: 20.0 mi
- Sapphire Ballroom & Dance Center: 23.5 mi
- Tingler's Mill: 24.8 mi
- Falls of Dismal: 19.9 mi
- Haven Heights Picnic Site: 20.0 mi
- Radford Safety Rest Area North: 22.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.4 miles of Foster Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Knob | ESE 118° | 1,327 m | 7.8 mi |
| Butt Mountain | SE 136° | 1,282 m | 3.2 mi |
| Lookoff Rock | SE 137° | 1,256 m | 3.5 mi |
| Wind Rock | E 84° | 1,246 m | 7.9 mi |
| Wrights Peak | NE 56° | 1,242 m | 9.1 mi |
| Sugar Run Mountain | SW 224° | 1,238 m | 15.1 mi |
| Brushy Top | ESE 103° | 1,236 m | 3.5 mi |
| Lone Pine Peak | E 88° | 1,232 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:27 | 19:00 | 19:35 |
| June solstice | 06:03 | 20:09 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:11 | 18:47 | 19:21 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:28 | 17:09 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 36 | 43 | 52 | 60 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 65 | 54 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.6 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.0 | 4.7 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 2.9 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Pearisburg 4 SSE, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1495561 — Foster Knob, Giles County, Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356583578
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