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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. 83 named places lie within 25 miles, 9 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
263 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.75490, -96.00075

83 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 37
  • 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: 9
Attractions: 3
  • AT&SF NO.940: 1.2 mi
  • Bartlesville Gravity Hill: 6.0 mi
  • Caney Valley Speedway: 18.7 mi
Cliffs: 3
Gardens: 2
  • The Rose Garden: 3.5 mi
  • 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 MoundWSW 239°320 m20.4 mi
Artillery MountainNW 319°310 m20.0 mi
Twin MoundsW 279°309 m13.9 mi
Round MoundNNE 14°306 m24.6 mi
Blue MoundENE 66°305 m10.7 mi
Sundown HillNNW 346°286 m10.4 mi
Stony PointNNE 28°285 m23.3 mi
Allin HillNE 37°263 m24.4 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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