Turkey Hill
Turkey Hill rises to 101 m in Connecticut. South Mountain stands 313 m to the west-northwest, 8.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Kensington Soldier's Monument, a historic site 0.5 miles away. Merritt Parkway passes 30 miles off.
The story
mountain in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States of America
Wikidata Q31808757, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 101 m
How to reach it
- 30.0 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Kensington Soldier's Monument: 0.5 mi
- World War I Monument: 3.4 mi
- New Britain Soldiers' Monument: 3.6 mi
- Borinqueneers Monument: 4.3 mi
- plinth: 5.6 mi
- Bicentennial Park: 0.6 mi
- Pine Tree Rifle Club: 0.6 mi
- Carriage Drive Open Space: 0.8 mi
- Town Of Berlin (Warner Road): 0.9 mi
- Town Of Berlin (Four Rod Road): 0.9 mi
- Percival Field: 0.9 mi
- Paper Goods Pond Park: 1.1 mi
- Dennehy Field: 1.3 mi
- Deming Park: 1.5 mi
- Griswold Park: 1.5 mi
- Berlin Historical Society: 1.5 mi
- New Britain Youth Museum at Hungerford Park: 2.0 mi
- New Britain Industrial Museum: 3.6 mi
- New Britain Youth Museum: 3.6 mi
- Solomon Goffe House Museum: 4.3 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 1.9 mi
- Westfield Falls: 4.3 mi
- Mill Pond Falls: 6.1 mi
- Wadsworth Falls: 7.7 mi
- Cascades: 7.7 mi
- Ragged Mountain: 2.0 mi
- Short Mountain: 2.2 mi
- Savage Hill: 2.9 mi
- Lamentation Mountain: 3.0 mi
- Snow Hill: 3.1 mi
- Cromwell Community Garden: 5.0 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 6.2 mi
- Erin Street Community Garden: 7.4 mi
- Sunken Garden: 7.6 mi
- Wolcott Community Garden: 7.9 mi
- 1954: 5.0 mi
- Hospital Rock: 5.7 mi
- Will Warren's Den: 6.3 mi
- Libby's Lump: 7.7 mi
- Come On Over Wall: 7.8 mi
- Home: 3.5 mi
- CT DOT Infrastructure Showcase: 5.4 mi
- First Tear: 7.0 mi
- Henry Clay Work Bust: 8.1 mi
- A Journey toward Freedom & Excellence: 10.3 mi
- Green Wall: 6.4 mi
- Porcupine Hole: 6.5 mi
- South Wall: 10.5 mi
- Solar Panel: 10.5 mi
- Superstructure: 10.5 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 7.0 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 7.3 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 9.7 mi
- Boating Side: 13.3 mi
- Waterfront: 13.4 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 4.7 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 6.9 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 10.7 mi
- Cold Spring: 21.0 mi
- Hermit spring: 22.4 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 24.0 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 18.6 mi
- Gay City State Park: 19.3 mi
- Picnic Grove: 13.4 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 9.8 miles of Turkey Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Mountain | WNW 285° | 313 m | 8.7 mi |
| Lindsley Hill | W 273° | 312 m | 9.4 mi |
| West Peak | SW 220° | 301 m | 4.8 mi |
| Compounce Mountain | W 278° | 290 m | 8.1 mi |
| Southington Mountain | W 263° | 281 m | 8.5 mi |
| East Peak | SSW 214° | 277 m | 4.8 mi |
| Higby Mountain | SSE 153° | 272 m | 5.0 mi |
| Castle Rock | WNW 290° | 251 m | 8.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:27 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:14 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:15 | 15:40 | 16:25 |
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 | 28 | 30 | 38 | 49 | 59 | 68 | 73 | 72 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.1 | 2.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 3.4 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Meriden Markham Muni AP, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 211599 — Turkey Hill, Capitol County, Connecticut.
OpenStreetMap element node/359270692
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- Connecticut River Valley · 23 mi
- East Windsor · 24 mi
- Essex · 27 mi
- Tolland · 28 mi
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