Starved Rock
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Starved Rock rises to 167 m in Illinois. Smiths Mound stands 228 m to the southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Wildcat Canyon Waterfall, a waterfall 0.5 miles away. Illinois River Road passes 0.4 miles off. 7 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
mountain in United States of America
Wikidata Q32358657, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 167 m
How to reach it
- 0.4 mi off the Illinois River Road, National
- 32.3 mi off the Historic Route 66, National
Overlooks nearby
- Lovers Leap Overlook · 1 mi
- Eagle Cliff Overlook · 1 mi
- French Canyon · 1 mi
- Pontiac Canyon · 1 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Carey Memorial Park: 1.8 mi
- Matthiessen Dells Nature Preserve: 2.6 mi
- Pecumsaugan Creek - Blackball Mines Nature Preserve: 3.0 mi
- Lehigh Mormorial Park: 3.1 mi
- Memorial Park: 4.0 mi
- Matthiessen State Park: 2.5 mi
- Starved Rock Nature Preserve: 2.5 mi
- Matthiessen State Park: 3.1 mi
- Buffalo Rock State Park: 3.6 mi
- Dayton Bluffs Preserve: 10.8 mi
- Remembering the Radium Girls: 7.8 mi
- Civil War Memorial: 7.9 mi
- Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas: 7.9 mi
- cherry Mine Disaster: 13.8 mi
- Pluto Monument: 14.5 mi
- Catfish Effigy: 3.6 mi
- Buffalo Rock: 3.6 mi
- Frog Effigy: 3.7 mi
- Water Strider Effigy: 3.9 mi
- Piety Hill: 4.7 mi
- Wildcat Canyon Waterfall: 0.5 mi
- Saint Louis Canyon Waterfall: 0.8 mi
- Lake Falls: 2.4 mi
- Ottawa Canyon Waterfall: 2.4 mi
- Cascade Falls: 2.6 mi
- La Salle County Historical Museum: 1.7 mi
- Streatorland Historical Museum: 15.9 mi
- Mendota Museum & Historical Society: 17.1 mi
- Earlville History Museum: 18.9 mi
- Bureau County Historical Museum: 24.9 mi
- Buffalo Rock: 3.2 mi
- Shadow Bluff: 8.5 mi
- Holderman Hill: 23.7 mi
- Volvo Island: 10.2 mi
- Birthplace of Wild Bill Hickok: 11.1 mi
- ATSF Depot: 16.2 mi
- Boy Scout of America: 6.6 mi
- Reuben G. Soderstrom: 15.9 mi
- Lake Wildwood Beach 1: 23.1 mi
- Lake WIldwood Beach 2: 23.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Starved Rock. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smiths Mound | SE 139° | 228 m | 23.9 mi |
| Piety Hill | WSW 259° | 189 m | 4.7 mi |
| Buffalo Rock | E 87° | 170 m | 3.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:52 | 20:33 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:19 | 15:46 | 16:30 |
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 | 23 | 27 | 38 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 74 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 40 | 29 |
| Precip in | 1.8 | 1.5 | 2.3 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 3.6 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ottawa 4SW, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/9363015028
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- Cherry · 14 mi
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