Maple Spring
Maple Spring is a spring in Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 1,198 m. Reddish Knob stands 1,338 m to the southwest, 7.4 miles off. The nearest named place is Dundore Mountain, a peak 0.2 miles away.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Dundore Mountain: 0.2 mi
- Meadow Knob: 1.9 mi
- Richland Mountain: 1.9 mi
- Goods Mountain: 2.1 mi
- Pond Knob: 2.3 mi
- Skidmore Fork Scenic Area: 4.0 mi
- Skidmore Fork Scenic Area: 4.0 mi
- Riven Rock Picnic Area: 4.3 mi
- Brandywine Recreation Area: 6.2 mi
- Shenandoah Wildlife Management Area: 7.2 mi
- Fort Harrison: 13.1 mi
- Memorial Garden: 13.3 mi
- Cannon Veterans Memorial: 14.9 mi
- Veterans Memorial Monument: 15.0 mi
- JMU Alma Mater: 15.2 mi
- Beaver Creek Spring: 7.3 mi
- Hall Spring: 9.0 mi
- Sand Spring: 9.6 mi
- Hiner Spring: 14.7 mi
- Rock Lick Spring: 15.1 mi
- Bridgewater Historical Society: 13.1 mi
- Brethren & Mennonite Heritage Center: 13.3 mi
- Museum Of American Jewelry Design and Manufacturing: 15.2 mi
- Virginia Quilt Museum: 15.3 mi
- Explore More Discovery Museum: 15.3 mi
- Love Essence: 14.2 mi
- Reader's Guide to an Open Window: 14.2 mi
- Flames: 14.3 mi
- CON_Sequential Complex: 14.3 mi
- Guns into Plowshares: 14.3 mi
- Raven Rocks: 11.3 mi
- Eagle Rock: 22.3 mi
- Trinity Point: 22.6 mi
- Southern Pillar: 24.5 mi
- Seneca Rocks: 24.6 mi
- Treasure Mountain: 12.2 mi
- Eagle’s Sugar Camp: 19.9 mi
- Fear Forest: 21.0 mi
- Seneca Caverns: 21.3 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 24.7 mi
- North River Picnic Area: 14.0 mi
- Blue Hole Day Use Area: 19.0 mi
- Mountain House Day Use Area: 19.7 mi
- Stonewall Ruritan Club Picnic Ground: 21.7 mi
- Heishman Garden: 14.2 mi
- ISAT Patio: 16.0 mi
- Edith J. Carrier Arboretum: 16.0 mi
- Mount Sidney Safety Rest Area South: 21.4 mi
- Mount Sidney Safety Rest Area North: 21.5 mi
- Mole Hill Acres: 11.2 mi
- Smoke Hole: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.6 miles of Maple Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reddish Knob | SW 233° | 1,338 m | 7.4 mi |
| Flagpole Knob | WSW 246° | 1,336 m | 3.0 mi |
| Slate Springs Mountain | WSW 246° | 1,332 m | 3.2 mi |
| Bother Knob | WSW 252° | 1,323 m | 4.4 mi |
| Little Bald Knob | SW 216° | 1,320 m | 11.4 mi |
| High Knob | NW 325° | 1,246 m | 3.5 mi |
| Dyers Knob | SW 233° | 1,245 m | 8.3 mi |
| Dundore Mountain | NW 326° | 1,244 m | 0.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:21 | 18:54 | 19:29 |
| June solstice | 05:53 | 20:05 | 20:45 |
| September equinox | 07:05 | 18:40 | 19:15 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 16:18 | 17:00 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 35 | 42 | 52 | 62 | 71 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 2.6 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Dale Enterprise, 12 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: Dec–May — fullest in Mar, leanest in Jul.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 124 | 149 | 214 | 167 | 137 | 77.9 | 33.2 | 37.7 | 55.8 | 53.2 | 82.3 | 110 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge S F South Branch Potomac River AT Brandywine, WV, 9 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- Cow Knob Salamander5 obs
- garlic mustard4 obs
- ground-ivy3 obs
- Shenandoah Mountain Salamander2 obs
- Allegheny Mountain Dusky Salamander2 obs
- Common Box Turtle2 obs
- eastern hemlock2 obs
- mountain andromeda2 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/3892123258
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