Clover Meadow Spring
Clover Meadow Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,145 m. Spanish Mountain stands 3,064 m to the east-northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Delilah Spring, a spring 0.6 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Luckett Mountain: 3.9 mi
- Oat Mountain: 4.0 mi
- Mount Sampson: 4.1 mi
- Bald Mountain: 5.8 mi
- Sontag Point: 5.8 mi
- Delilah Spring: 0.6 mi
- Blue Clay Spring: 3.5 mi
- Fox Spring: 4.3 mi
- Trough Spring: 6.1 mi
- Sycamore Springs: 6.8 mi
- Trimmer Recreation Area: 10.8 mi
- Teakettle Experiment Area: 11.0 mi
- Winton Park: 14.4 mi
- General Grant Grove Section Kings Canyon Nat: 15.4 mi
- Sheridan Park: 16.7 mi
- Columbine Picnic Area: 10.2 mi
- Mc Kinley Botanical Area: 14.0 mi
- Helms Picnic Area: 15.7 mi
- Short Hair Creek Picnic Area: 16.4 mi
- Dinkey Fisherman Picnic Site: 17.1 mi
- Zephyr Headquarters: 3.7 mi
- Whitewater Voyages Headquarters: 3.7 mi
- Chicago Stump: 8.2 mi
- Gamlin Cabin: 9.8 mi
- Centennial Stump: 9.9 mi
- Garlic Falls: 9.9 mi
- Ella Falls: 10.1 mi
- Viola Falls: 10.3 mi
- Rancheria Creek Falls: 11.0 mi
- Silver Spray Falls: 19.7 mi
- Patterson Bluffs: 7.3 mi
- Windy Cliffs: 17.0 mi
- Grand Bluff: 18.0 mi
- Big Sandy Bluff: 23.4 mi
- Jumping Rock: 12.2 mi
- Sandy Cove Beach: 12.6 mi
- Reedley Beach: 24.6 mi
- Museum of the Sierra: 23.2 mi
- Reedley Museum: 23.9 mi
- Alta District Historical Society: 24.3 mi
- Academy: 23.2 mi
- Blue Canyon Cabin: 23.4 mi
- Shorty's Williams Meadow Cabin: 24.8 mi
- Bookie Bear: 9.0 mi
- Dinuba Christian Church Statue: 23.7 mi
- Oakhurst: 18.0 mi
- Homer Ranch Preserve: 24.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 17.8 miles of Clover Meadow Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish Mountain | ENE 65° | 3,064 m | 14.3 mi |
| Obelisk | ENE 68° | 2,958 m | 16.1 mi |
| Finger Rock | NE 45° | 2,928 m | 16.7 mi |
| Hoffman Mountain | NE 44° | 2,885 m | 16.2 mi |
| Crown Rock | ENE 57° | 2,850 m | 16.9 mi |
| Dome of the Immaculate Conception | NNE 21° | 2,805 m | 17.4 mi |
| Hall Mountain | NNE 24° | 2,621 m | 15.8 mi |
| Buck Rock | ESE 112° | 2,591 m | 15.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:34 | 19:09 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:41 | 20:20 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:21 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:06 | 16:04 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 46 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 65 | 73 | 81 | 81 | 76 | 66 | 53 | 45 |
| Precip in | 5.6 | 4.9 | 5.1 | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 4.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Balch PWR House, 6 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Apr–Jul — fullest in Jun, leanest in Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 34.5 | 51.1 | 72.4 | 127 | 309 | 473 | 149 | 8.8 | 8.1 | 9.4 | 10.8 | 13.7 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge NF Kings R BL Balch Div Dam CA, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Bush Poppy2 obs
- Spotted Owl1 obs
- Pacific chorus frog1 obs
- Kings River Slender Salamander1 obs
- American Black Bear1 obs
- Stream Orchid1 obs
- Common Sagebrush Lizard1 obs
- Mountain Misery1 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/902481843
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