Jones Knob
Jones Knob rises to 726 m in North Carolina. Bearwallow Mountain stands 1,281 m to the north-northwest, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Lamb Mountain, a peak 0.5 miles away. Black Mountain Rag passes 1.5 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Henderson County, North Carolina, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31629320, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 726 m
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 5.8 mi off the Drovers Road
- 8.8 mi off the Historic Flat Rock Scenic Byway
- 9.5 mi off the Pacolet River Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Exclamation Point · 6 mi
- Devil's Head · 6 mi
- Opera Box · 6 mi
- Pulpit Rock · 6 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Edneyville Community Park: 1.2 mi
- Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park: 6.1 mi
- The Gathering Place: 6.6 mi
- Chimney Rock Village River Park: 6.8 mi
- Morse Park: 7.2 mi
- Oleta Falls: 2.4 mi
- Puncheon Camp Creek Falls: 4.4 mi
- Game Land Falls: 5.0 mi
- Bead and Lace Falls: 5.1 mi
- Upper Pool Creek Falls: 5.2 mi
- Lamb Mountain: 0.5 mi
- Pilot Mountain: 0.9 mi
- Bradley Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Livert Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Point Lookout: 1.6 mi
- Edneyville High School Monument: 1.5 mi
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton: 8.0 mi
- Dixie Highway Monument: 8.3 mi
- Battle of Round Mountain Monument: 11.2 mi
- Doughboy Statue: 11.3 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 8.2 mi
- Columbarium Garden: 14.8 mi
- Dr. John Wilson Community Garden: 16.0 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 16.3 mi
- Spring Garden: 16.7 mi
- Western North Carolina Air Museum: 7.4 mi
- Mineral & Lapidary Museum: 8.2 mi
- Saluda Historic Depot and Museum: 9.5 mi
- Historic Johnson Farm: 10.1 mi
- House of Flags: 11.3 mi
- Grady's Animal Discovery Den: 6.4 mi
- Southern X793: 7.9 mi
- Historical Downtown: 8.2 mi
- Canopy Ridge Farm: 9.6 mi
- Elijah Mountain Gem Mine And Crystal Store: 10.3 mi
- Blue Ridge Assembly: 15.6 mi
- Globe: 16.1 mi
- Orange Bear: 16.3 mi
- Statue of Diana: 16.7 mi
- Tebbé Davies Fine Art Studios: 18.8 mi
- The Pinnacles: 3.8 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 3.8 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 4.0 mi
- Worlds Edge: 4.7 mi
- Cedar Cliff: 10.3 mi
- Bat Fork Bog Site: 7.2 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 7.6 mi
- Lake Lure Green Space: 8.5 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 12.4 mi
- Poinsett Bridge Heritage Preserve: 17.2 mi
- Lenox Spring: 9.0 mi
- Crystal Spring: 10.0 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 15.0 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 23.0 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 23.2 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 17.8 mi
- Sycamore Flats Picnic Area: 22.5 mi
- Pisgah Picnic: 23.9 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 11.7 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 11.7 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 18.2 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 23.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.3 miles of Jones Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bearwallow Mountain | NNW 347° | 1,281 m | 6.2 mi |
| Sugarloaf Mountain | ENE 57° | 1,208 m | 4.2 mi |
| Little Bearwallow Mountain | N 353° | 1,208 m | 6.4 mi |
| Turkey Knob | NNW 342° | 1,136 m | 5.7 mi |
| Bank Mountain | NW 315° | 1,128 m | 5.8 mi |
| Bald Top Mountain | NW 316° | 1,086 m | 5.0 mi |
| Hightop Mountain | WNW 299° | 1,082 m | 6.5 mi |
| Stony Mountain | NE 46° | 1,039 m | 4.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 20:11 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:42 | 17:21 |
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 | 37 | 41 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 71 | 74 | 73 | 67 | 57 | 47 | 40 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 4.3 | 4.9 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 5.8 | 5.7 | 5.0 | 4.1 | 4.6 | 5.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hendersonville 1 NE, 7 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1020981 — Jones Knob, Henderson County, North Carolina.
OpenStreetMap element node/357807852
Day trips start here
- Asheville · 19 mi
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