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Little Ham Hole Spring

Little Ham Hole Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Little Ham Hole Spring is a spring in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 212 m. Comanche Peak stands 373 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Big Ham Hole Spring, a spring 0.5 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 6.8 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.

How to reach it

Coordinates32.21640, -97.47473

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
Historic sites
Museums: 20
Artworks: 17
  • General Cleburne: 10.3 mi
  • Wild Frontier, Trail Dust, And Rails: 10.3 mi
  • How Do You Stack Up?: 10.4 mi
  • Welcome to Historic Cleburne: 10.5 mi
  • Shannon's Wings: 10.5 mi
Peaks: 14
  • Bee Mountain: 5.5 mi
  • Brushy Knob: 8.9 mi
  • Berry Knob: 10.0 mi
  • Barnard Knob: 12.6 mi
  • Powelldale Mountains: 13.1 mi
Cliffs: 8
Gardens: 6
Attractions: 5
Nature reserves: 4
Springs: 2
Ghost towns: 1
Beaches: 1
  • Canoe Docks: 15.6 mi
Picnic sites: 1
  • Acton Tabernacle: 20.3 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Comanche PeakWNW 301°373 m22.2 mi
Cedar MountainWSW 240°362 m24.1 mi
Flat Top MountainWSW 240°359 m23.6 mi
Brushy KnobN 10°303 m16.7 mi
Caddo PeakNNE 12°303 m18.7 mi
Dinner HillSW 231°302 m21.7 mi
Pilot KnobSSW 200°301 m21.1 mi
Barnard KnobNW 312°292 m12.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:3519:0919:42
June solstice06:2520:0420:40
September equinox07:1918:5619:28
December solstice07:2816:5217:30

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–May, Sep–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F454956647280848477665547
Precip in2.62.53.53.14.33.92.12.83.04.42.92.5

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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs59.168.612816130413942.413.543.310251.048.6

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Nolan Rv at Blum, TX, 6 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • Grasshopper Sparrow5 obs
  • green antelopehorns4 obs
  • Redstem Stork's-bill3 obs
  • Texas bluebonnet3 obs
  • giant blue sage3 obs
  • little bluestem3 obs
  • Texas Paintbrush3 obs
  • Merlin2 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.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element node/11475686139

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