Little Mountain
Little Mountain rises to 1,168 m in West Virginia. Spruce Knob stands 1,482 m to the south-southwest, 9.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Falls of Seneca, a waterfall 0.7 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 20 miles off.
The story
mountain in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States of America (GNIS ID = 1551879)
Wikidata Q31717971, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1168 m
How to reach it
- 19.8 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 20.8 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 24.7 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
- 25.3 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
Overlooks nearby
- Overlook · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Kisamore Hill: 1.5 mi
- Job Knob: 3.4 mi
- Ketterman Knob: 4.4 mi
- Brierpatch Mountain: 4.7 mi
- Horse Rock: 5.2 mi
- Potomac Wildlife Management Area: 5.8 mi
- Beaver Dam Wildlife Management Area: 10.3 mi
- Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area: 10.9 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 11.5 mi
- Dolly Sods Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 10.1 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 12.1 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 12.2 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 13.0 mi
- Pat Spring: 13.1 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 0.7 mi
- Small waterfall: 4.1 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 4.3 mi
- High Falls: 16.1 mi
- Elakala Falls: 19.3 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 4.5 mi
- Wilson Monument: 19.9 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 20.7 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 21.1 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 21.1 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 6.5 mi
- Southern Pillar: 6.5 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 6.5 mi
- Lower Slabs: 6.6 mi
- Eagle Rock: 10.5 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 6.1 mi
- Sites Homestead: 6.2 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 20.6 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 20.9 mi
- Stringtown: 11.1 mi
- Smoke Hole: 11.2 mi
- Mill Run: 13.3 mi
- Gertrude: 19.5 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 7.0 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 16.8 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 19.9 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 13.3 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 19.4 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 23.7 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 12.6 mi
- Locust Springs: 18.8 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 20.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Little Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Knob | SSW 195° | 1,482 m | 9.2 mi |
| Mount Porte Crayon | NNE 14° | 1,452 m | 7.2 mi |
| Green Knob | NNE 25° | 1,424 m | 5.4 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SW 232° | 1,410 m | 9.6 mi |
| Haystack Knob | NNE 27° | 1,376 m | 5.9 mi |
| Horse Rock | S 188° | 1,374 m | 5.2 mi |
| Weiss Knob | NNE 15° | 1,359 m | 11.9 mi |
| Job Knob | NW 326° | 1,353 m | 3.4 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 | 07:34 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
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 | 25 | 28 | 35 | 46 | 55 | 63 | 66 | 66 | 59 | 48 | 38 | 30 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 4.0 | 4.8 | 5.2 | 6.2 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Glady 1 N, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356523939
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