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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

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Coordinates43.53506, -70.69355
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
  • Sid Emery Demonstration Forest: 0.9 mi
  • Sid Emery Demonstration Forest: 0.9 mi
  • Sid Emery Demonstration Forest: 1.0 mi
  • Knight-Cluff: 3.6 mi
  • EE Brown-Ross: 3.7 mi
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
Gardens
  • 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
Beaches: 56
  • 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: 54
  • 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
Museums: 36
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: 9
  • 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 MountainWNW 301°324 m8.2 mi
Davis HillW 276°324 m14.1 mi
Hussey HillW 263°315 m12.3 mi
Joab Black PeakN 350°315 m14.5 mi
Ossipee HillNNW 328°312 m4.4 mi
Mitchell MountainWNW 301°295 m13.0 mi
John Douglass MountainN 352°287 m14.5 mi
Gerrish MountainW 268°280 m11.6 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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