Pilot Knob
Pilot Knob rises to 408 m in Tennessee. Hampton Mountain stands 616 m to the east-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is The Pink Elephant, a historic site 1.2 miles away. Cumberland Historic Byway passes 21 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Putnam County, Tennessee, United States.
Wikidata Q31683025, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 408 m
How to reach it
- 21.0 mi off the Cumberland Historic Byway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Buck Mountain: 4.6 mi
- Phifer Mountain: 6.0 mi
- Ward Mountain: 6.2 mi
- Algood Mountain: 6.5 mi
- Jones Mountain: 7.2 mi
- Parkview Park: 1.4 mi
- Ensor Sink Natural Area: 1.5 mi
- Walnut Park: 2.0 mi
- Capshaw Park: 2.1 mi
- Cookeville Square: 2.3 mi
- City Lake Falls: 3.9 mi
- Falling Water Cascades: 7.5 mi
- Little Falls: 7.5 mi
- Burgess Falls: 7.6 mi
- Middle Falls: 7.7 mi
- Harris Bluff: 7.9 mi
- Dave Bluff: 12.5 mi
- Hardscrabble Bluff: 12.6 mi
- Pendleton Bluff: 12.7 mi
- Stillhouse Rock: 16.2 mi
- Soard Properties Museum: 2.0 mi
- Depot Museum: 2.3 mi
- Cookeville History Museum: 2.3 mi
- Cookeville Childrens Museum: 2.4 mi
- Baxter Visitor Center and Museum: 7.2 mi
- CRMC Basin Garden: 2.6 mi
- Tech Native Plant Garden: 3.2 mi
- TTU Eagle Statue: 3.3 mi
- Standing Stone State Park: 20.5 mi
- Sunset Rock: 15.9 mi
- Canoe the Caney - Satellite Location: 16.8 mi
- The Pink Elephant: 1.2 mi
- Tennessee Visitor Center: 16.4 mi
- Pinhook: 18.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 20.3 miles of Pilot Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton Mountain | ENE 78° | 616 m | 15.7 mi |
| Tyler Mountain | ENE 73° | 597 m | 16.2 mi |
| Blaylock Mountain | ENE 66° | 593 m | 10.5 mi |
| Green Pond Mountain | ENE 76° | 592 m | 20.0 mi |
| Verble Knobs | E 92° | 587 m | 16.8 mi |
| Copeland Mountain | ENE 72° | 585 m | 16.0 mi |
| Harris Mountain | NE 56° | 582 m | 16.1 mi |
| Gunter Mountain | ENE 78° | 580 m | 17.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:47 | 18:20 | 18:54 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:25 | 20:03 |
| September equinox | 06:31 | 18:07 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 06:50 | 15:52 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 37 | 40 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 73 | 77 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 41 |
| Precip in | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 4.3 | 6.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cookeville, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356826936
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