Mount Fillmore
Mount Fillmore rises to 2,344 m in California. Mount Elwell stands 2,361 m to the east, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Etna, a peak 1.3 miles away.
The story
Mount Fillmore is a mountain in the Plumas National Forest in Sierra County, California. It is 8 miles (13 km) northeast of La Porte and 12 miles (19 km) north of Downieville. Mount Fillmore was named for a naval officer.
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Wikidata Q6920758, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2,344 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mount Etna: 1.3 mi
- Stafford Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Skyhigh: 2.2 mi
- Beartrap Mountain: 2.3 mi
- Table Rock: 2.4 mi
- Lake Basin Recreation Area: 10.1 mi
- Central Plumas Recreation & Parks District: 14.6 mi
- Pioneer Park: 14.6 mi
- Middle Fork Feather Wild and Scenic River: 14.7 mi
- Dame Shirley: 15.2 mi
- Limestone Point: 9.0 mi
- Rocky Point: 10.2 mi
- Ruby Bluff: 15.0 mi
- Marble Cone: 15.5 mi
- Bell Point: 18.3 mi
- Tin Cup Diggins Picnic Area: 11.8 mi
- Jackson Creek Picnic Ground: 12.2 mi
- Sand Pond Picnic Site: 14.5 mi
- Loganville Scenic Highway Center Picnic Site: 15.2 mi
- Convict Flat Picnic Site: 15.2 mi
- Fern Falls: 10.0 mi
- Frazier Falls: 11.3 mi
- Loves Falls: 16.7 mi
- Hackmans Falls: 16.9 mi
- Feather Falls: 23.2 mi
- Frank C. Reilly Museum: 7.7 mi
- Plumas-Eureka State Park Museum: 8.4 mi
- Downieville Museum: 11.8 mi
- Plumas County Museum: 15.1 mi
- Kentucky Mine Historic Park and Museum: 16.4 mi
- Switchback spring: 16.0 mi
- Upper Derbec Spring: 23.3 mi
- Willow Spring: 23.4 mi
- Derbec Spring: 23.4 mi
- Holden Spring: 24.0 mi
- Mammoth Mill: 8.0 mi
- Downie Chapter 1249: 11.8 mi
- Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout: 14.4 mi
- Sierra County Chinese Laborer Memorial: 16.4 mi
- Massack Rest Area: 13.4 mi
- L.T.Davis Rest Area: 24.2 mi
- Jamison: 9.6 mi
- Bucks Lake Wilderness: 24.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.1 miles of Mount Fillmore. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Elwell | E 100° | 2,361 m | 8.8 mi |
| Pilot Peak | NNW 347° | 2,271 m | 3.8 mi |
| Mount Washington | E 93° | 2,236 m | 7.4 mi |
| Blue Nose Mountain | NE 36° | 2,217 m | 3.8 mi |
| Gibraltar | ESE 107° | 2,210 m | 4.1 mi |
| Eureka Peak | E 80° | 2,183 m | 7.1 mi |
| Beartrap Mountain | ESE 106° | 2,172 m | 2.3 mi |
| Rattlesnake Peak | SE 134° | 2,168 m | 4.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:08 | 18:40 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:36 | 19:55 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:52 | 18:27 | 19:02 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 16:00 | 16:43 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 42 | 45 | 50 | 57 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 65 | 55 | 44 | 38 |
| Precip in | 11.3 | 10.7 | 10.0 | 5.3 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.7 | 3.3 | 6.8 | 11.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Downieville, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 260103 — Mount Fillmore, Sierra County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358797778
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