Town Hill
Town Hill rises to 15 m in Massachusetts. Deer Park Hill stands 165 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Motta Field, a park 0.1 miles away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 21 miles off. 39 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Town Hill is a summit at the northern end of the Outer Cape of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts. It is located in Provincetown. It is the location of the Pilgrim Monument. Oak Head is located north-northeast of Town Hill, and the Race Point Light is on the coast to the north.
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Wikidata Q56280648, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 15 m
How to reach it
- 20.8 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Ryder Street Beach: 0.3 mi
- Town Beach: 0.9 mi
- Herring Cove Beach: 1.5 mi
- Boys Beach: 1.7 mi
- Race Point Beach: 2.4 mi
- Roderick Parcel: 0.3 mi
- B Street Garden Conservation Restriction: 0.4 mi
- Delores Roderick Land: 0.4 mi
- Adams Land: 0.5 mi
- Hawthorne Wildlife Sanctuary: 0.5 mi
- High Pole Hill: 0.2 mi
- Miller Hill: 0.8 mi
- Telegraph Hill: 0.9 mi
- Oak Head: 1.2 mi
- Snake Hills: 1.5 mi
- Motta Field: 0.1 mi
- Jerome Smith Field: 0.2 mi
- Bas Relief Park: 0.2 mi
- Old Ann Page Park: 0.2 mi
- Town Hall Grounds: 0.3 mi
- Hearing Trumpet: 0.2 mi
- Big Bird: 0.2 mi
- Torsion: 0.2 mi
- Or As We So: 0.2 mi
- Wounded Warrior: 0.2 mi
- Great Rebellion of 1861-1865: 0.2 mi
- Bas Relief: 0.2 mi
- Mayflower Compact Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Mayflower Passengers Memorial 1620-1920: 0.2 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Provincetown Museum: 0.1 mi
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy: 0.5 mi
- Provincetown Art Association & Museum;Provincetown Art Association and Museum: 0.6 mi
- Old Harbor Life Saving Museum: 2.2 mi
- Highland House Museum: 6.5 mi
- Dolphin Fleet · Whale Watch: 0.3 mi
- Dolphin Fleet Whale Watch: 0.4 mi
- Coast Guard Motor Lifeboat CG 36500: 19.9 mi
- Penniman House: 20.0 mi
- Jonathan Young Windmill: 20.9 mi
- Indian Neck: 13.1 mi
- Lookout Point: 23.4 mi
- Fullers Point: 24.5 mi
- Salten Point: 24.5 mi
- Peaked Cliff: 24.6 mi
- Highland/Cape Cod Light: 6.7 mi
- Nauset Light: 18.1 mi
- Pumphouse: 21.3 mi
- Plymouth Light: 21.3 mi
- PAAM Sculpture Garden: 0.6 mi
- Suzanne's Garden: 1.2 mi
- Butterfly & Hummingbird Garden: 15.5 mi
- Long Point: 2.1 mi
- Picnick Area: 21.8 mi
- truck pull-off: 23.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Town Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Park Hill | SSE 159° | 165 m | 22.0 mi |
| Manomet Hill | WSW 247° | 114 m | 22.3 mi |
| Pine Hills | WSW 248° | 95 m | 22.0 mi |
| Mountain Hill | SW 232° | 61 m | 23.9 mi |
| Signal Hill | S 179° | 60 m | 22.1 mi |
| Hio Hill | SW 235° | 54 m | 23.1 mi |
| Bay Hill | SW 233° | 53 m | 24.6 mi |
| Indian Hill | SW 236° | 49 m | 21.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:45 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| June solstice | 05:06 | 19:38 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:29 | 18:03 | 18:40 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 15:28 | 16:13 |
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 | 31 | 33 | 39 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 74 | 73 | 66 | 56 | 46 | 37 |
| Precip in | 4.8 | 4.2 | 5.8 | 4.7 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 4.3 | 5.0 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Plymouth-kingston, 26 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 616662 — Town Hill, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.
OpenStreetMap element node/358275054
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