Big Ham Hole Spring
Big Ham Hole Spring is a spring in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 218 m. Comanche Peak stands 373 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Ham Hole Spring, a spring 0.5 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 7.3 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.
How to reach it
- 7.3 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- Hamm Creek Park: 3.1 mi
- Cleburne State Park: 4.9 mi
- Chisholm Trail Park: 5.5 mi
- Lakeshore Park: 6.5 mi
- Chisholm Trail Outdoor Musuem: 7.3 mi
- Grange Hall Cemetery: 4.8 mi
- Baker-Lain Cemetery: 5.8 mi
- Menefee Reunion: 6.0 mi
- Henry Briden Cabin: 6.0 mi
- Early Cattle Trade: 6.0 mi
- Texas Children's Museum: 6.0 mi
- The Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum: 7.3 mi
- Gone With the Wind Museum: 10.0 mi
- Johnson County Courthouse Museum: 10.3 mi
- Lowell Smith Sr. History Center: 10.4 mi
- General Cleburne: 10.1 mi
- Wild Frontier, Trail Dust, And Rails: 10.2 mi
- How Do You Stack Up?: 10.3 mi
- Welcome to Historic Cleburne: 10.4 mi
- Shannon's Wings: 10.4 mi
- Bee Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Brushy Knob: 9.3 mi
- Berry Knob: 9.5 mi
- Barnard Knob: 12.1 mi
- Powelldale Mountains: 13.5 mi
- Bluff Mills: 3.6 mi
- Broke Rock: 4.3 mi
- Hendrick Arnold Bluff: 7.2 mi
- Robinson Bluff: 7.9 mi
- White Bluff: 14.2 mi
- Iris Garden: 9.0 mi
- Guinn Garden at Buffalo Creek: 10.1 mi
- Somervell County Master Gardeners Demo Garden: 15.9 mi
- elizabeth crockett butterfly Garden: 18.1 mi
- Fire Station 16 Memorial Garden: 23.0 mi
- The Spirit of Cleburne: 9.8 mi
- ATSF 999457: 10.6 mi
- Serenity Point: 18.1 mi
- Apatosaurus: 19.7 mi
- Tyrannosaurus rex: 19.7 mi
- Vivian J. Malone Preserve: 5.2 mi
- Glen Rose Bird Sanctuary: 16.1 mi
- Acton Nature Center: 18.1 mi
- Little Ham Hole Spring: 0.5 mi
- Old City Spring: 10.2 mi
- Brazos Point: 8.4 mi
- Canoe Docks: 15.1 mi
- Acton Tabernacle: 19.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Big Ham Hole Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comanche Peak | WNW 300° | 373 m | 21.7 mi |
| Cedar Mountain | WSW 239° | 362 m | 24.0 mi |
| Flat Top Mountain | WSW 239° | 359 m | 23.5 mi |
| Brushy Knob | NNE 11° | 303 m | 16.5 mi |
| Caddo Peak | NNE 13° | 303 m | 18.5 mi |
| Dinner Hill | SW 230° | 302 m | 21.6 mi |
| Pilot Knob | SSW 199° | 301 m | 21.3 mi |
| Barnard Knob | NW 312° | 292 m | 12.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:35 | 19:10 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:25 | 20:04 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 07:19 | 18:56 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:28 | 16:53 | 17:30 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 49 | 56 | 64 | 72 | 80 | 84 | 84 | 77 | 66 | 55 | 47 |
| Precip in | 2.6 | 2.5 | 3.5 | 3.1 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 2.1 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Cleburne, 8 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Mar–Jun, Oct — fullest in May, leanest in Aug.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 59.1 | 68.6 | 128 | 161 | 304 | 139 | 42.4 | 13.5 | 43.3 | 102 | 51.0 | 48.6 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Nolan Rv at Blum, TX, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Grasshopper Sparrow5 obs
- Redstem Stork's-bill3 obs
- Texas bluebonnet3 obs
- green antelopehorns3 obs
- Texas Paintbrush3 obs
- Merlin2 obs
- Vermilion Flycatcher2 obs
- Say's Phoebe2 obs
Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/11475674313
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