Sand Mountain
Sand Mountain rises to 691 m in West Virginia. Pike Knob stands 1,308 m to the west-southwest, 6.3 miles off. The nearest named place is Buffalo Hills, a peak 0.6 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 24 miles off.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31509239, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 691 m
How to reach it
- 24.0 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 25.2 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
- 28.8 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
- 29.7 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Buffalo Hills: 0.6 mi
- River Mountain: 1.9 mi
- High Knob: 2.2 mi
- Tract Hill: 2.3 mi
- Cedar Knob: 2.7 mi
- Ruddle Park: 2.9 mi
- Franklin Town Park: 4.0 mi
- Thorn Spring Park: 6.7 mi
- Thorn Creek Wildlife Management Area: 9.0 mi
- Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area: 9.0 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 11.4 mi
- Hall Spring: 11.7 mi
- Sand Spring: 13.3 mi
- Maple Spring: 16.0 mi
- Locust Spring: 18.8 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 5.2 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 5.3 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 20.8 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 21.6 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 23.3 mi
- Raven Rocks: 6.1 mi
- Eagle Rock: 8.7 mi
- Southern Pillar: 9.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 9.3 mi
- Lower Slabs: 9.5 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 10.7 mi
- Small waterfall: 10.8 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 11.9 mi
- High Falls: 24.7 mi
- Smoke Hole: 11.0 mi
- Stringtown: 21.3 mi
- Mill Run: 24.6 mi
- Gertrude: 24.8 mi
- Locust Springs: 18.8 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 21.4 mi
- Stonewall Ruritan Club Picnic Ground: 24.7 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 24.7 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 9.4 mi
- Sites Homestead: 9.6 mi
- Charles P. Jones Museum: 24.2 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 10.1 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 22.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Sand Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pike Knob | WSW 248° | 1,308 m | 6.3 mi |
| Harmon Rocks | W 272° | 1,243 m | 4.3 mi |
| Castle Knob | SW 226° | 1,058 m | 8.3 mi |
| Castle Mountain | SW 231° | 1,032 m | 6.2 mi |
| Socrates Mountain | SSE 164° | 1,032 m | 7.4 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | SW 228° | 1,004 m | 2.8 mi |
| Peters Mountain | WSW 243° | 994 m | 3.8 mi |
| Flint Knob | S 183° | 959 m | 8.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:06 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 35 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin 2 NE, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/356525251
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