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Tame Buck Hill

Tame Buck Hill, seen from above at true elevation

Tame Buck Hill rises to 207 m in Connecticut. South Mountain stands 313 m to the north-northeast, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Forest Lane Property, a nature reserve 0.2 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 23 miles off.

About

The story

Mountain in Connecticut, United States of America.

Wikidata Q31808694, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

The record

What the record says

Elevation
207 m
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates41.56510, -72.97983
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves
Parks
  • Fairlawn Playground: 1.6 mi
  • Berkeley Heights Playground: 2.0 mi
  • Scott Road Park: 2.1 mi
  • Sunrise Park: 2.1 mi
  • City Mills Playground: 2.4 mi
Museums
  • Mattatuck Museum: 3.3 mi
  • Barker Character, Comic, & Cartoon Museum: 5.0 mi
  • Bradley Barnes Museum: 5.9 mi
  • Naugatuck History Museum at the Tuttle House: 6.2 mi
  • Imagine Nation Children's Museum: 7.5 mi
Gardens: 59
  • Sustainable Garden: 4.8 mi
  • Japanese Garden: 4.8 mi
  • Earthkind Rose Trial Garden: 4.8 mi
  • Biblical Garden: 4.9 mi
  • Shakespeare Garden: 4.9 mi
Historic sites
  • Rochambeau Monument: 3.0 mi
  • Carrie Welton Fountain: 3.2 mi
  • Clock-On-The-Green: 3.2 mi
  • Veterans Monument: 3.3 mi
  • Soldiers' Monument: 3.3 mi
Peaks
Artworks: 54
  • Maori Head: 3.0 mi
  • Ben Franklin: 3.4 mi
  • Greetings from Waterbury: 3.4 mi
  • Whale Sculpture: 3.4 mi
  • Home: 12.4 mi
Attractions: 51
  • Libby's Lump: 4.9 mi
  • Rock House: 7.6 mi
  • Tory's Den: 10.7 mi
  • Hospital Rock: 11.8 mi
  • World's Largest Pile of Horseshoes: 11.9 mi
Waterfalls: 40
Beaches: 38
Cliffs: 23
  • Whitestone Cliffs: 5.5 mi
  • Satan's Dog Bowl: 7.8 mi
  • Ravens Roost: 10.6 mi
  • Petro Cliffs: 10.6 mi
  • Bethel Rock: 11.6 mi
Picnic sites: 6
  • Picnic Grove: 5.7 mi
  • Pond View: 21.7 mi
  • The Rotary Pavilion: 21.8 mi
  • Oak Grove: 22.1 mi
  • Cedar Grove: 22.4 mi
Rest areas: 5
  • Southington Rest Area: 3.9 mi
  • Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 12.3 mi
  • Wallingford Rest Area: 12.7 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (North Bound): 20.0 mi
  • Rest Area CT-15 (South Bound): 20.0 mi
Springs: 4
  • Cold Spring: 16.9 mi
  • Hermit spring: 21.5 mi
  • Cannavo Spring: 24.7 mi
  • Ever Flowing Spring: 24.8 mi
On the horizon

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 8.8 miles of Tame Buck Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
South MountainNNE313 m6.0 mi
Lindsley HillN312 m4.1 mi
Clinton HillNNW303 m3.9 mi
West PeakE301 m7.0 mi
Becar HillN297 m3.9 mi
Compounce MountainNNE290 m5.1 mi
Fall MountainN284 m5.5 mi
Southington MountainNE281 m2.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5618:2819:04
June solstice05:1919:4820:30
September equinox06:4018:1418:51
December solstice07:1615:4116:26

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F283038495968737265534233
Precip in3.12.94.04.13.54.13.43.54.34.53.44.1

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 211351 — Tame Buck Hill, Naugatuck Valley County, Connecticut.

OpenStreetMap element node/359270233

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