Horse Rock
Horse Rock rises to 1,374 m in West Virginia. Spruce Knob stands 1,482 m to the south-southwest, 4.1 miles off. The nearest named place is 1971 Plane Crash Site, a historic site 0.8 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 19 miles off.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31717294, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,374 m
How to reach it
- 18.6 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 20.2 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
- 21.0 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 22.0 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Mallow Knob: 2.7 mi
- Spruce Knob: 4.1 mi
- Judy Rocks: 4.3 mi
- Ketterman Knob: 4.4 mi
- Nelson Rocks: 4.6 mi
- Beaver Dam Wildlife Management Area: 9.7 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 9.9 mi
- Ruddle Park: 11.2 mi
- Franklin Town Park: 12.1 mi
- Thorn Spring Park: 12.9 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 5.0 mi
- Locust Spring: 13.9 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 14.0 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 14.4 mi
- Pat Spring: 14.5 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 1.1 mi
- Small waterfall: 1.3 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 4.5 mi
- High Falls: 15.0 mi
- Elakala Falls: 24.5 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 6.1 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 15.1 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 20.7 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 22.2 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 22.8 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 0.8 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 20.8 mi
- Wilson Monument: 20.8 mi
- Camp Bartow Historic Site: 20.9 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 22.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 8.8 mi
- Sites Homestead: 8.9 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 21.1 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 22.2 mi
- Charles P. Jones Museum: 23.9 mi
- Southern Pillar: 9.0 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 9.1 mi
- Lower Slabs: 9.2 mi
- Eagle Rock: 12.3 mi
- Raven Rocks: 14.0 mi
- Smoke Hole: 13.7 mi
- Stringtown: 16.3 mi
- Gertrude: 16.5 mi
- Mill Run: 18.2 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 18.5 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 20.4 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 24.4 mi
- Locust Springs: 13.9 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 15.6 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 22.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.1 miles of Horse Rock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Knob | SSW 205° | 1,482 m | 4.1 mi |
| Green Knob | NNE 17° | 1,424 m | 10.5 mi |
| Pharis Knob | W 263° | 1,410 m | 6.9 mi |
| Kile Knob | S 174° | 1,395 m | 9.5 mi |
| Haystack Knob | NNE 18° | 1,376 m | 11.0 mi |
| Job Knob | N 352° | 1,353 m | 8.0 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | N 354° | 1,348 m | 9.6 mi |
| Cunningham Knob | WSW 248° | 1,339 m | 9.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:55 | 19:30 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:07 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:42 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
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 | 35 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin 2 NE, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1551497 — Horse Rock, Pendleton County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356523822
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