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The Mound

The Mound, seen from above at true elevation

The Mound rises to 263 m in Oklahoma. Wooster Mound stands 320 m to the west-southwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Douglass Park, a park 0.6 miles away. Osage Nation Heritage Trail Byway runs past it. 80 named places lie within 25 miles, 8 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
263 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.75490, -96.00075

80 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 36
  • Douglass Park: 0.6 mi
  • Veteran's Park: 0.7 mi
  • Phillips 66 Plaza Park: 1.2 mi
  • Frank Phillips Park: 1.2 mi
  • Frank Phillips Tower Center Plaza: 1.3 mi
Museums: 11
  • Phillips 66 Museum: 1.3 mi
  • Bartlesville Area History Museum: 1.3 mi
  • Frank Phillips Home: 1.6 mi
  • Tom Mix Museum: 4.6 mi
  • Dewey Hotel Museum: 4.6 mi
Artworks: 9
  • Buffalo: 1.5 mi
  • Blind Man at the Pool of Siloam: 3.5 mi
  • Flying Eagle: 3.6 mi
  • Train Car: 19.3 mi
  • Boy Scouts Camping: 19.4 mi
Peaks: 8
Attractions: 3
  • AT&SF NO.940: 1.2 mi
  • Bartlesville Gravity Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Caney Valley Speedway: 18.7 mi
Cliffs: 3
Gardens: 1
  • The South Garden: 3.5 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • Woolaroc Wildlife Preserve: 8.8 mi
Waterfalls: 1
  • Bluestem Lake Falls: 22.1 mi
Beaches: 1
  • Bluestem Lake Public Beach: 23.2 mi

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of The Mound. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Wooster MoundWSW320 m20.4 mi
Artillery MountainNW310 m20.0 mi
Round MoundNNE306 m24.6 mi
Blue MoundENE305 m10.7 mi
Sundown HillNNW286 m10.4 mi
Stony PointNNE285 m23.3 mi
Allin HillNE263 m24.4 mi
Twin MoundsS252 m12.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2819:0219:36
June solstice06:0620:0820:47
September equinox07:1318:4819:23
December solstice07:3416:3217:12

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F353948586776817971594737
Precip in2.01.92.94.04.95.33.73.33.53.52.52.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bartlesville 3, under a mile away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1098836 — The Mound, Osage County, Oklahoma.

OpenStreetMap element node/357406352

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