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Watts Hill

Watts Hill, seen from above at true elevation

Watts Hill rises to 481 m in Pennsylvania. Rager Mountain stands 786 m to the southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Warner Hill, a peak 3.2 miles away. Laurel Highlands Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The story

mountain in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Wikidata Q49087849, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
481 m

How to reach it

Coordinates40.60062, -79.27782

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Shelocta Community Park: 4.1 mi
  • Getty Heights Park: 5.3 mi
  • IUP Co-Op Park: 5.9 mi
  • Fourth Ward Park: 6.3 mi
  • Whites Woods Nature Center: 6.3 mi
Peaks: 45
Attractions: 40
  • Community park: 6.3 mi
  • IUP Arch: 6.6 mi
  • The Dragon & Gwenevere: 23.3 mi
  • Little Boy Blue: 23.3 mi
  • Ding Dong Bell: 23.3 mi
Historic sites: 39
Artworks: 9
Museums: 7
  • IUP Museum: 6.4 mi
  • Vandergrift Museum-Historical Society: 14.8 mi
  • Leechburg Area Museum and Historical Society: 17.2 mi
  • Armstrong County Historical Museum & Genealogical Society, Inc: 19.7 mi
  • KLBE Air Museum: 23.0 mi
Nature reserves: 7
Gardens: 4
  • Monastic Garden Area: 22.4 mi
  • Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve Colonial Garden: 22.6 mi
  • Penn State Master Gardeners’ Richard E. Thorn Memorial Gardens: 23.3 mi
  • Laurel Ave Community Garden: 24.7 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Beaches: 2
  • Tunnelville Beach: 14.0 mi
  • Keystone Beach: 16.6 mi
Cliffs: 2
Picnic sites: 1
Springs: 1
  • Granny Coon Spring: 22.3 mi

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Watts Hill. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Rager MountainSE 127°786 m22.1 mi
Bear RocksSSE 165°745 m15.7 mi
Kinter HillNE 50°630 m20.7 mi
Moose HillE 96°587 m11.5 mi
Doty RoundtopNE 49°579 m22.9 mi
Penn View MountainSSE 155°577 m12.5 mi
Strongs HillE 90°555 m11.8 mi
Evans HillESE 101°552 m10.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2118:5319:29
June solstice05:4720:1120:52
September equinox07:0518:4019:16
December solstice07:3816:1016:54

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F272937485967716963524132
Precip in3.62.93.94.04.34.85.14.34.23.53.53.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Indiana 3 SE, 8 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1190702 — Watts Hill, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.

OpenStreetMap element node/357319293

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