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Ricker Hill

Ricker Hill, seen from above at true elevation

Ricker Hill rises to 116 m in Maine. Abbott Mountain stands 324 m to the west-northwest, 8.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Sid Emery Demonstration Forest, a nature reserve 0.9 miles away. Branch River Valley Trail passes 14 miles off.

About

The story

Mountain in York County, Maine, United States of America.

Wikidata Q33145373, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
116 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates43.53506, -70.69355
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Bunganut Town Park: 1.3 mi
  • Friendship Park: 2.8 mi
  • Brother's Beach Town Park: 3.0 mi
  • Mousam Way Park: 7.0 mi
  • Witham Street Fields: 7.0 mi
Peaks
Nature reserves
  • Sid Emery Demonstration Forest: 0.9 mi
  • Knight-Cluff: 3.6 mi
  • EE Brown-Ross: 3.7 mi
  • Sousa Family Preserve: 4.4 mi
  • Ossipee Mountain: 4.8 mi
Beaches: 53
  • Town Beach: 3.6 mi
  • LAC private Beach 3: 8.6 mi
  • LAC private Beach 5: 9.1 mi
  • Newfield Public Beach: 12.6 mi
  • Limerick Municipal Beach: 12.6 mi
Historic sites: 51
  • Jayden's Journey Memorial Park: 9.2 mi
  • Mariner's Circle: 10.0 mi
  • Memorial Rock: 12.0 mi
  • Stone wall livestock pen: 15.0 mi
  • Unidentified old homestead, house and barn ruins: 15.0 mi
Gardens: 51
  • Sanford Community Garden: 9.4 mi
  • Memorial Garden: 16.0 mi
  • South Berwick Community Garden: 21.1 mi
  • Somersworth Community Garden: 21.4 mi
  • common space: 21.9 mi
Museums: 34
Artworks: 19
  • Fairy Village: 8.0 mi
  • Wire Globe: 15.9 mi
  • Athlete Sculptures: 16.0 mi
  • Our Forebearers of the Coast: 16.4 mi
  • Tractor: 18.4 mi
Attractions: 8
  • Willowbrook Museum Village: 11.4 mi
  • Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve at Laudholm: 15.4 mi
  • Rock Tripe Boulder: 18.0 mi
  • Spring Hill: 19.7 mi
  • Ampitheater: 20.4 mi
Waterfalls: 6
  • Cascade Falls Waterfall: 14.4 mi
  • Steep Falls: 17.7 mi
  • Orris Falls: 18.0 mi
  • Hiram Falls: 22.5 mi
  • Presumpscot Falls: 24.7 mi
Cliffs: 5
Springs: 2
  • Cold Bowling Spring: 17.2 mi
  • Davis Spring: 22.0 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • Limington Rapids Rest Area: 13.8 mi
Lighthouses: 1
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.6 miles of Ricker Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Abbott MountainWNW324 m8.2 mi
Davis HillW324 m14.1 mi
Hussey HillW315 m12.3 mi
Joab Black PeakN315 m14.5 mi
Ossipee HillNNW312 m4.4 mi
High PastureN296 m14.6 mi
Mitchell MountainWNW295 m13.0 mi
John Douglass MountainN287 m14.5 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:4718:1718:55
June solstice05:0219:4420:28
September equinox06:3118:0418:42
December solstice07:1315:2316:10

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F212332445463696760483827
Precip in3.73.64.74.63.84.64.03.93.85.34.54.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sanford 2 NNW, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 574187 — Ricker Hill, York County, Maine.

OpenStreetMap element node/358223409

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