Town Mountain
Town Mountain rises to 872 m in West Virginia. Pike Knob stands 1,308 m to the west, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Franklin Town Park, a park 1.5 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 24 miles off.
The story
Mountain in West Virginia, United States of America.
Wikidata Q31559928, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 872 m
How to reach it
- 24.1 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 24.8 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
- 29.2 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
Named places within 25 miles
- Middle Mountain: 1.6 mi
- Cedar Knob: 2.1 mi
- High Knob: 3.0 mi
- Propst Knob: 3.1 mi
- Turkey Knob: 3.2 mi
- Franklin Town Park: 1.5 mi
- Thorn Spring Park: 4.3 mi
- Ruddle Park: 5.5 mi
- Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area: 5.9 mi
- Thorn Creek Wildlife Management Area: 6.3 mi
- Hall Spring: 9.9 mi
- Sand Spring: 11.6 mi
- Maple Spring: 12.6 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 13.0 mi
- Rock Lick Spring: 18.3 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 4.2 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 8.8 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 18.6 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 20.2 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 21.9 mi
- Raven Rocks: 2.8 mi
- Eagle Rock: 11.8 mi
- Southern Pillar: 12.8 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 12.8 mi
- Lower Slabs: 13.0 mi
- Locust Springs: 19.0 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 20.8 mi
- Stonewall Ruritan Club Picnic Ground: 22.2 mi
- North River Picnic Area: 22.8 mi
- Mountain House Day Use Area: 24.3 mi
- Seneca Rocks Discovery Center: 13.0 mi
- Sites Homestead: 13.1 mi
- Charles P. Jones Museum: 22.5 mi
- Highland County Museum: 24.2 mi
- 1971 Plane Crash Site: 13.0 mi
- Old Sexton Cabin: 22.1 mi
- Fort Edward Johnson (1862): 24.0 mi
- Confederate Breastworks Interpretive Site: 24.2 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 13.6 mi
- Small waterfall: 13.7 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 15.2 mi
- Smoke Hole: 14.0 mi
- Stringtown: 24.9 mi
- Mole Hill Acres: 23.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.0 miles of Town Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pike Knob | W 277° | 1,308 m | 7.4 mi |
| Harmon Rocks | WNW 300° | 1,243 m | 6.7 mi |
| Castle Knob | WSW 251° | 1,058 m | 7.8 mi |
| Socrates Mountain | S 171° | 1,032 m | 3.9 mi |
| Castle Mountain | W 265° | 1,032 m | 6.3 mi |
| Brushy Mountain | WNW 291° | 1,004 m | 3.8 mi |
| Peters Mountain | WNW 287° | 994 m | 5.1 mi |
| Flint Knob | SSW 201° | 959 m | 5.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:22 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:54 | 20:06 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 07:06 | 18:41 | 19:16 |
| December solstice | 07:32 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 35 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 72 | 70 | 64 | 54 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 2.6 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Franklin 2 NE, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1553254 — Town Mountain, Pendleton County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356524509
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