Stuart Knob
Stuart Knob rises to 1,221 m in West Virginia. Mount Porte Crayon stands 1,452 m to the east, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Bickle Knob, a peak 1.1 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 7.1 miles off.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31535441, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,221 m
How to reach it
- 7.1 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 10.9 mi off the Rich Mountain Backway
- 23.6 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 24.8 mi off the Northwestern Turnpike
Named places within 25 miles
- Bickle Knob: 1.1 mi
- Big Knob: 3.0 mi
- McGowan Mountain: 3.3 mi
- Pond Lick Mountain: 3.5 mi
- Hertig Knob: 4.0 mi
- Bear Heaven Recreation Area: 1.7 mi
- Alpena Gap Recreation Site: 2.7 mi
- Stuart Recreation Area: 3.6 mi
- Otter Creek Wildlife Management Area: 5.0 mi
- Davis Street Park: 7.2 mi
- High Falls: 12.0 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 14.4 mi
- Small waterfall: 15.8 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 16.0 mi
- Elakala Falls: 16.3 mi
- Ernest Carr Spring: 2.9 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 4.1 mi
- Pat Spring: 4.6 mi
- Harlan Irons Spring: 7.6 mi
- Bubbling Springs: 14.2 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 7.6 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 11.1 mi
- Sites Homestead: 19.4 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 19.4 mi
- Covered Bridge Museum: 23.2 mi
- Elkins Roundhouse: 7.7 mi
- Wilson Monument: 8.3 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 16.5 mi
- Historic Coke Ovens: 17.0 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 23.4 mi
- Mill Run: 10.3 mi
- Stringtown: 13.2 mi
- Gertrude: 19.0 mi
- Kempton: 22.2 mi
- Smoke Hole: 23.6 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 19.8 mi
- Lower Slabs: 19.8 mi
- Southern Pillar: 19.8 mi
- Eagle Rock: 23.8 mi
- Canaan Valley Resort State Park: 15.1 mi
- Dobbin Slashings Preserve: 22.2 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 22.7 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 1.6 mi
- Locust Springs: 24.6 mi
- Harold S. Walters Nature Center: 16.9 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 21.1 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 7.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.8 miles of Stuart Knob. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Porte Crayon | E 92° | 1,452 m | 13.7 mi |
| Green Knob | E 100° | 1,424 m | 14.5 mi |
| Pharis Knob | SSE 162° | 1,410 m | 14.3 mi |
| Haystack Knob | E 99° | 1,376 m | 14.8 mi |
| Horse Rock | SE 138° | 1,374 m | 17.0 mi |
| Weiss Knob | ENE 75° | 1,359 m | 15.6 mi |
| Job Knob | ESE 115° | 1,353 m | 11.2 mi |
| Brierpatch Mountain | ESE 107° | 1,348 m | 10.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:56 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:42 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:35 | 16:19 | 17:01 |
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 | 31 | 34 | 41 | 52 | 60 | 68 | 71 | 70 | 64 | 53 | 42 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.1 | 4.5 | 6.0 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 2.9 | 3.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Elkins- Randolph CO AP, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1555731 — Stuart Knob, Randolph County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356525306
Day trips start here
- Buckhannon · 28 mi
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