Section Mountain
Section Mountain rises to 232 m in Alabama. Wallace Mountain stands 409 m to the east, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Sand Mountain High Ridge, a peak 1.3 miles away.
The story
Mountain in Alabama, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31515465, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 232 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sunnyside Park: 3.5 mi
- Sports Field: 3.8 mi
- Flamingo Park: 3.9 mi
- Redstone Arsenal Recreation Area: 5.4 mi
- Boeing Recreation Area: 6.7 mi
- Sand Mountain High Ridge: 1.3 mi
- Little Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Barkley Mountain: 4.4 mi
- John Black Mountain: 4.5 mi
- Turkey Mountain: 5.1 mi
- Helicopter: 10.5 mi
- Historic Downtown Hartselle: 12.1 mi
- Huntsville Speedway: 12.4 mi
- Skylab Vehicle Cluster: 13.6 mi
- U.S. Army Roland: 13.6 mi
- Watkins Bluff: 2.3 mi
- Lewis Buff: 4.9 mi
- Plymouth Rock: 5.6 mi
- Bell Bluff: 6.7 mi
- Yellow Bluff: 7.5 mi
- Triana Veterans Memorial: 3.9 mi
- Purple Heart Memorial: 12.7 mi
- Cummings Research Park Lake Obelisk: 13.4 mi
- Fort Decatur Recreation Center: 14.3 mi
- Ricky's Rocket: 14.7 mi
- Tortoise: 13.9 mi
- Schooling fish: 13.9 mi
- Rabbit: 13.9 mi
- Dragonfly: 13.9 mi
- Beaver: 13.9 mi
- U.S. Space & Rocket Center: 13.8 mi
- Cook Museum of Natural Science: 14.5 mi
- U.S. Veterans Memorial Museum: 14.6 mi
- Southern Railway Depot: 14.9 mi
- Huntsville Museum of Art: 16.5 mi
- Betts Spring: 10.2 mi
- Byrd Spring: 13.3 mi
- Brahan Spring: 14.9 mi
- Big Spring: 16.7 mi
- Alm's Spring: 18.2 mi
- Pavilion 12: 14.8 mi
- Pavilion 9: 14.8 mi
- Pavilion 10: 14.8 mi
- Pavilion 11: 14.9 mi
- Pavilion 7: 14.9 mi
- Dallas W. Fanning Nature Preserve: 8.8 mi
- Mill Creek Nature Preserve: 13.4 mi
- Bethel Spring Nature Preserve: 22.6 mi
- Creekwood Garden: 14.4 mi
- Marie's Garden: 15.9 mi
- North Alabama Japanese Garden: 20.0 mi
- Talucah Beach: 3.5 mi
- Lacon: 16.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 13.4 miles of Section Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallace Mountain | E 83° | 409 m | 13.0 mi |
| Wade Point | ENE 76° | 401 m | 13.4 mi |
| Russell Point | ENE 74° | 397 m | 12.6 mi |
| Whitesburg Mountain | E 97° | 391 m | 8.0 mi |
| Bell Point | E 92° | 387 m | 7.9 mi |
| Lehman Point | E 100° | 385 m | 5.7 mi |
| Bettinger Mountain | E 96° | 379 m | 11.2 mi |
| Husky Mountain | E 95° | 378 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:52 | 18:26 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:26 | 20:04 |
| September equinox | 06:36 | 18:12 | 18:45 |
| December solstice | 06:51 | 16:02 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 43 | 47 | 54 | 63 | 71 | 79 | 81 | 81 | 75 | 64 | 53 | 46 |
| Precip in | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.1 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 5.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Huntsville Intnl AP, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 126526 — Section Mountain, Morgan County, Alabama.
OpenStreetMap element node/358928342
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