Harry Birch Springs
Harry Birch Springs is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 1,491 m. Split Mountain stands 4,269 m to the northwest, 11 miles off. The nearest named place is Grover Anton Spring, a spring 1.8 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sawmill Point: 1.9 mi
- Lookout Point: 2.2 mi
- Indian Rock: 4.1 mi
- Colosseum Mountain: 4.4 mi
- Mount Baxter: 5.3 mi
- Grover Anton Spring: 1.8 mi
- Scotty Spring: 2.7 mi
- Little Blackrock Spring: 3.5 mi
- McGann Springs: 3.9 mi
- Hines Spring: 5.7 mi
- Aberdeen Station: 7.2 mi
- Shorty's Woods Creek Crossing Cabin: 8.4 mi
- Prospect: 8.5 mi
- Shorty's Vidette Meadow Cabin: 12.5 mi
- Shorty's Gardiner Basin Cabin: 13.1 mi
- Chicken Ranch: 20.2 mi
- Saline Valley Road OHV Trailhead: 20.3 mi
- Boot Arch: 21.0 mi
- Man of Steel (movie site): 21.0 mi
- Cyclops Skull Arch: 21.1 mi
- Bk 34 Mess Hall Garden: 14.3 mi
- Arai Pond: 14.4 mi
- Rose Garden: 14.4 mi
- Japanese Garden: 14.4 mi
- Bk 22 Mess Hall Garden: 14.6 mi
- Muro Blanco: 12.9 mi
- Windy Cliff: 16.7 mi
- Great Cliffs: 18.6 mi
- Slide Bluffs: 21.5 mi
- Ebersbacher Ledges: 22.4 mi
- Upper Gardiner Falls: 11.3 mi
- Lower Gardiner Falls: 11.3 mi
- Triple Falls: 15.7 mi
- Mist Falls: 15.9 mi
- First Falls: 17.2 mi
- Mobius Arch: 22.4 mi
- Lathe Arch: 22.4 mi
- Heart Arch: 22.4 mi
- Whitney Portal Arch: 22.5 mi
- Hitching Post Arch: 23.4 mi
- Dehy Park: 8.6 mi
- Independence Park: 9.3 mi
- Merritt Park: 14.4 mi
- Mendenhall Park: 17.9 mi
- Big Pine Triangle County Park: 18.2 mi
- Eastern California Museum: 8.8 mi
- Mary Austin's House: 8.8 mi
- Manzanar National Historic Site Visitor Center: 14.8 mi
- Southern Inyo Museum: 24.4 mi
- Museum of Western Film History: 24.7 mi
- Kearsarge: 7.2 mi
- Bend City: 10.7 mi
- San Carlos: 11.6 mi
- Whitney Portal Picnic Area: 22.5 mi
- South Lake Picnic Area: 23.6 mi
- La Hupp Picnic Area: 24.1 mi
- Division Creek Rest Area: 3.7 mi
- Fort Independence Travel Plaza: 6.0 mi
- Paiute Mural: 14.5 mi
- Miss Alabama: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.3 miles of Harry Birch Springs. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Split Mountain | NW 316° | 4,269 m | 10.7 mi |
| University Peak | SSW 200° | 4,138 m | 11.9 mi |
| Birch Mountain | NW 326° | 4,134 m | 12.8 mi |
| Mount Bolton Brown | NW 318° | 4,124.3 m | 12.7 mi |
| Mount Pinchot | WNW 292° | 4,113.6 m | 7.0 mi |
| Mount Prater | NW 317° | 4,107 m | 11.9 mi |
| Cardinal Mountain | NW 312° | 4,076 m | 9.3 mi |
| The Thumb | NW 322° | 4,058 m | 14.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:31 | 19:05 |
| June solstice | 05:35 | 19:38 | 20:17 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:17 | 18:52 |
| December solstice | 07:03 | 16:00 | 16:41 |
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 | 44 | 47 | 54 | 60 | 69 | 79 | 85 | 83 | 76 | 64 | 52 | 43 |
| Precip in | 1.4 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Independence, 9 mi away.
- California black oak5 obs
- Bigelow's monkeyflower4 obs
- Common Side-blotched Lizard3 obs
- rosy gilia3 obs
- cottonthorn3 obs
- Mount Lyell Salamander2 obs
- Anise Swallowtail2 obs
- California Buckwheat2 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/9238361200
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