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Reed Farm Spring

Reed Farm Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Reed Farm Spring is a spring in West Virginia, at a modelled elevation of 503 m. Mill Mountain stands 1,006 m to the east-southeast, 5.7 miles off. The nearest named place is Buck Mountain, a peak 1.6 miles away. Skyline Drive passes 29 miles off.

How to reach it

Coordinates39.02181, -78.72073

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
Parks: 42
Museums: 15
Springs: 14
Historic sites: 13
  • Collie Grave: 9.0 mi
  • Van Buren Furnace: 9.3 mi
  • Veterans Memorial: 19.5 mi
  • Stephens Fort: 21.6 mi
  • South Carolina Monument: 22.1 mi
Cliffs: 6
Attractions: 4
Waterfalls: 3
Nature reserves: 3
Gardens: 2
Artworks: 2
  • Cootie Bug: 21.4 mi
  • Statue of Liberty: 21.5 mi
Picnic sites: 2
Beaches: 1
  • Public River Access, Fishing: 22.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 13.5 miles of Reed Farm Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mill MountainESE 122°1,006 m5.7 mi
Devils BenchmarkS 185°995 m6.4 mi
Sugar KnobESE 118°976 m6.7 mi
Long MountainS 173°951 m4.8 mi
Little Sluice MountainESE 122°951 m7.5 mi
Snyder KnobSSW 204°936 m7.0 mi
Paddy MountainE 97°910 m8.5 mi
Cove MountainSSW 211°898 m10.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1918:5219:27
June solstice05:5020:0520:45
September equinox07:0318:3819:14
December solstice07:3116:1416:56

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F303239515967716963524234

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lost RVR, 7 mi away.

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs16.619.425.326.830.013.35.55.09.78.713.518.6

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Waites Run Near Wardensville, WV, 7 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • Virginia Springbeauty3 obs
  • Painted Turtle2 obs
  • yellow trout lily2 obs
  • Virginia bluebells2 obs
  • cut-leaved toothwort2 obs
  • lyreleaf sage2 obs
  • box huckleberry2 obs
  • large twayblade2 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/11848358659

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