Tunnel Hill
Tunnel Hill rises to 211 m in Kentucky. Layman Knob stands 275 m to the east, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Everette Park, a park 0.8 miles away. Duncan Hines Scenic Road passes 22 miles off. 84 named places lie within 25 miles, 54 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in Ohio County, Kentucky, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49085217, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 211 m
How to reach it
- 21.9 mi off the Duncan Hines Scenic Road
84 named places within 25 miles
- Wildcat Knob: 2.4 mi
- Hickory Knob: 4.3 mi
- Rattlesnake Knob: 5.2 mi
- Bean Hill: 5.4 mi
- Barnes Hill: 5.6 mi
- Everette Park: 0.8 mi
- Ohio County Fair Grounds: 7.5 mi
- Dundee Park: 7.9 mi
- Oldham Park: 8.8 mi
- Beaver Dam Park & Amphitheater: 8.9 mi
- Hawkers Bluff: 10.1 mi
- Buzzards Roost Bluff: 12.5 mi
- Jackson Bluff: 16.9 mi
- Day Cliffs: 22.0 mi
- Marcum Bluff: 23.4 mi
- fort hartford reconstruction: 7.7 mi
- Confederate-Union Veterans Monument: 15.7 mi
- Everly Brothers Monument: 24.5 mi
- Fordsville railroad museum: 12.9 mi
- Green River Museum: 19.0 mi
- Jerusalem Ridge- Bill Monroe Homeplace: 2.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Tunnel Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Layman Knob | E 79° | 275 m | 23.6 mi |
| Telephone Knob | NNE 11° | 259 m | 17.3 mi |
| Duncan Hill | NE 51° | 249 m | 7.3 mi |
| Powell Hill | NE 40° | 247 m | 17.8 mi |
| Sand Knob | NE 45° | 246 m | 17.4 mi |
| Knob Lick Hill | NNE 27° | 245 m | 22.9 mi |
| Big Clifty | SSE 168° | 245 m | 24.7 mi |
| Cretcheloe Hill | NE 39° | 244 m | 17.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:25 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:27 | 19:33 | 20:12 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:11 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 06:59 | 15:52 | 16:33 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 38 | 46 | 58 | 66 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 70 | 58 | 47 | 38 |
| Precip in | 3.8 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 5.0 | 5.5 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 3.4 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beaver DAM, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 505571 — Tunnel Hill, Ohio County, Kentucky.
OpenStreetMap element node/358608975
Day trips start here
- Morgantown · 16 mi
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