Mill Spring
Mill Spring is a spring in Missouri, at a modelled elevation of 315 m. Taum Sauk Mountain stands 538 m to the east, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Cooks Spring, a spring 1.0 miles away. Great River Road passes 65 miles off. 133 named places lie within 25 miles, 47 of them named summits.
How to reach it
- 65.5 mi off the Great River Road, National
133 named places within 25 miles
- Red Hill: 8.4 mi
- Goggins Mountain: 11.0 mi
- Lee Mountain: 13.0 mi
- Panther Hill: 13.7 mi
- Bell Mountain: 14.2 mi
- Cooks Spring: 1.0 mi
- Cooks Spring: 3.5 mi
- Session Spring: 7.1 mi
- Double Springs Hollow: 9.3 mi
- Reeds Spring: 9.6 mi
- Buick: 6.5 mi
- Marcoot: 9.7 mi
- Dairyville: 11.8 mi
- Pinkley: 14.4 mi
- Alamode: 15.1 mi
- Sutton Bluff: 5.3 mi
- Clarady Bluff: 10.7 mi
- Coil Bluff: 17.3 mi
- Council Bluffs: 18.3 mi
- Upper Dugan Bluff: 20.4 mi
- Sinkin Experimental Forest: 10.2 mi
- Scotia Demonstration Area: 12.6 mi
- Loggers Lake Recreation Area: 13.0 mi
- Dillard Mill State Historic Site: 15.2 mi
- Camp Tom Sauk: 16.0 mi
- Wolf Pen Hollow Waterfall: 10.9 mi
- Johnson Shut-Ins: 13.8 mi
- Mina Sauk Falls: 19.3 mi
- Skyline Roadside Park: 17.7 mi
- Sinking Creek Day Use Area: 23.0 mi
- Round Spring: 24.0 mi
- Ozark Trail Southern John Roth Memorial: 4.4 mi
- Ozark Trail Northern John Roth Memorial: 14.0 mi
- Turner Natural Bridge: 11.8 mi
- Round Spring Natural Bridge: 24.0 mi
- Chapel Hill Beach: 17.6 mi
- Pulltite: 24.8 mi
- Powder Mill Cave Natural Area: 23.1 mi
- Shawnee Mac Lakes Conservation Area: 24.7 mi
- Taum Sauk Nature Museum: 14.4 mi
- Tip Top Roadside Park: 22.9 mi
- Memorial: 23.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mill Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taum Sauk Mountain | E 79° | 538 m | 20.0 mi |
| Wildcat Mountain | E 79° | 536 m | 18.6 mi |
| Russell Mountain | E 80° | 524 m | 21.9 mi |
| Bell Mountain | ENE 58° | 519 m | 14.2 mi |
| Proffit Mountain | ENE 78° | 519 m | 17.2 mi |
| Ketcherside Mountain | E 89° | 515 m | 23.0 mi |
| Hogan Mountain | E 90° | 513 m | 20.5 mi |
| Lindsey Mountain | ENE 63° | 507 m | 14.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:09 | 18:42 | 19:16 |
| June solstice | 05:44 | 19:51 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:53 | 18:28 | 19:03 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 16:09 | 16:50 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 32 | 37 | 46 | 56 | 64 | 72 | 76 | 75 | 68 | 57 | 45 | 36 |
| Precip in | 2.7 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.6 | 4.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.0 | 3.7 | 3.9 | 2.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Salem, 26 mi away.
- Three-toed Box Turtle2 obs
- witch's butter1 obs
- Pearl Crescent1 obs
- American hazelnut1 obs
- lesser smoothcap1 obs
- narrowleaf puccoon1 obs
- Eastern Tiger Swallowtail1 obs
- long-leaved bluets1 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/5676285803
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