Tame Buck Hill
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.
The story
mountain in Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31808694, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 207 m
How to reach it
- 22.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Forest Lane Property: 0.2 mi
- Garrigus Court Property: 0.5 mi
- Sloping Acres Park: 0.6 mi
- Little League Field: 0.7 mi
- Wolcott Recreation Area: 1.5 mi
- Bald Hill: 0.6 mi
- Wolf Hill: 1.3 mi
- Chestnut Hill: 2.0 mi
- Pine Hill: 2.8 mi
- Southington Mountain: 2.9 mi
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Cascade: 5.4 mi
- Buttermilk Falls: 5.6 mi
- Cascade: 5.9 mi
- Roaring Brook Falls: 6.0 mi
- Cascades: 6.0 mi
- 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
- 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
- Mattatuck Beach: 1.4 mi
- Boating Side: 5.7 mi
- Waterfront: 5.7 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 7.9 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 13.1 mi
- 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 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
- 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
- Cold Spring: 16.9 mi
- Hermit spring: 21.5 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 24.7 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 24.8 mi
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.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Mountain | NNE 16° | 313 m | 6.0 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | N 11° | 312 m | 4.1 mi |
| Clinton Hill | NNW 338° | 303 m | 3.9 mi |
| West Peak | E 92° | 301 m | 7.0 mi |
| Becar Hill | N 354° | 297 m | 3.9 mi |
| Pine Hill | NNW 332° | 295 m | 7.8 mi |
| Great Hill | WSW 255° | 292 m | 8.4 mi |
| Compounce Mountain | NNE 24° | 290 m | 5.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:28 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:19 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:14 | 18:51 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:41 | 16:26 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 9 mi away.
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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