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Hog Spring

Hog Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Hog Spring is a spring in California, at a modelled elevation of 297 m. Table Mountain stands 1,913 m to the northeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Upper Bidwell Park, a park 2.3 miles away.

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Coordinates39.75779, -121.73573

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks

Upper Bidwell Park: 2.3 mi
Blue Oak Park: 2.7 mi
Goose Island Cove Park: 2.8 mi
Rocky Cove Park: 2.8 mi
Sycamore Beach Park: 2.9 mi

Peaks

Flatiron: 2.7 mi
Castle Rock: 3.0 mi
Steamboat Rock: 7.7 mi
Nimshew Ridge: 7.9 mi
Robbers Roost: 8.0 mi

Waterfalls20

Museums17

Chico Children's Museum: 5.8 mi
National Yo-Yo Museum: 5.9 mi
Stansbury Home: 5.9 mi
Museum of Northern California Art: 6.0 mi
Depot Museum: 6.0 mi

Historic sites8

9/11 Memorial: 3.8 mi
IN LOVING MEMORY OF Kristina Chesterman 1992-2013: 4.4 mi
Phagna Norapamok Memorial: 5.8 mi
Chico Community Labyrinth: 5.9 mi
Bidwell Mansion: 6.0 mi

Springs8

Hespol Memorial Spring: 7.6 mi
Colyear Springs: 10.2 mi
Negro Spring: 10.9 mi
Root Spring: 11.9 mi
Bell Spring: 15.6 mi

Artworks7

Downtown Kaleidoscope: 5.9 mi
Monoliths: 6.1 mi
Wildcat Sculpture: 6.1 mi
Ring Roll: 6.1 mi
Chico State Flame: 6.1 mi

Ghost towns6

Monroeville: 14.0 mi
Bloomer: 15.9 mi
Soto: 17.2 mi
Brush: 18.0 mi
Bidwell's Bar: 20.9 mi

Cliffs5

Clarenback Point: 7.6 mi
Cape Horn: 9.9 mi
Steamboat Point: 12.0 mi
East China Point: 13.2 mi
Elephant Butte: 21.4 mi

Gardens4

Picnic sites3

Five Mile: 3.0 mi
Paradise Lake Picnic Area: 10.8 mi
Philbrook Picnic Area: 23.6 mi

Nature reserves2

North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve: 14.5 mi
Oroville Wildlife Management Area: 21.7 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 22.7 miles of Hog Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Table Mountain	NE 47°	1,913 m	22.5 mi
Bald Mountain	NE 45°	1,761 m	19.0 mi
Oak Point	NE 51°	1,617 m	18.6 mi
Bottle Hill	NNE 31°	1,609 m	20.9 mi
Gold Hill	NNE 32°	1,527 m	19.9 mi
Gold Hill	NNE 32°	1,523 m	19.7 mi
Grizzly Dome	ENE 69°	1,501 m	22.2 mi
The Big Hill	ENE 58°	1,471 m	20.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:11	18:44	19:19
June solstice	05:40	19:59	20:39
September equinox	06:55	18:30	19:06
December solstice	07:25	16:03	16:46

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	47	49	53	57	64	73	79	78	74	64	53	47
Precip in	10.2	10.1	8.3	4.6	2.3	0.8	0.0	0.2	0.4	2.8	5.5	11.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Paradise, 6 mi away.

Streamflow

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Feb, leanest in Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Mean cfs	657	793	763	667	487	280	166	134	116	132	210	461

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Butte C NR Chico CA, 3 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Wildlife nearby

Canyon liveforever84 obs
shield-bracted monkeyflower78 obs
blue dicks75 obs
Pipevine Swallowtail72 obs
California Dutchman's Pipe55 obs
Western Fence Lizard52 obs
Toyon52 obs
twining snakelily52 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap Wikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/313646301

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