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Yates Spring

Yates Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Yates Spring is a spring in Georgia, at a modelled elevation of 24 m. Curry Hill stands 98 m to the east, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Brinson Family Historic District, a park 3.7 miles away. 91 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.

How to reach it

Coordinates30.92503, -84.74310

91 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 41
  • Brinson Family Historic District: 3.7 mi
  • Reynoldsville State Park: 6.9 mi
  • Ten Mile Still Landing: 8.7 mi
  • Bill Reynolds Sports Park: 8.9 mi
  • Cheney Griffin Park: 9.0 mi
Nature reserves: 20
  • Lake Seminole Wildlife Management Area - Little Horseshoe Bend: 7.9 mi
  • Silver Lake Wildlife Management Area: 8.3 mi
  • Pine Hill Plantation: 9.7 mi
  • Lake Seminole Wildlife Management Area - Ten Mile Still: 10.0 mi
  • Apalachee Wildlife Management Area: 12.3 mi
Historic sites: 12
  • Bell Cobra: 9.6 mi
  • Camp Recovery Historic Marker: 11.8 mi
  • Cannon: 11.9 mi
  • Village of Fowltown: 12.1 mi
  • Charles James Munnerlyn "Refuge": 12.1 mi
Springs: 8
  • Carr Spring: 16.7 mi
  • Carr Spring: 16.8 mi
  • Chattahoochee Spring: 16.9 mi
  • Sinai Spring: 20.6 mi
  • Hill Springs: 21.0 mi
Museums: 3
  • Colquitt Miller Arts Council: 17.1 mi
  • Greensboro Depot Railroad Museum: 24.5 mi
  • Dezell House Museum: 24.7 mi
Peaks: 3
Attractions: 1
  • Downtown Bainbridge National Register Historic District: 10.3 mi
Cliffs: 1
Artworks: 1
  • Jesus: 16.5 mi
Rest areas: 1

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Curry HillE 89°98 m22.9 mi
Sixteenth HillSW 222°61 m17.1 mi
Hickory HillSSW 208°40 m24.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:4419:1919:51
June solstice06:3720:1120:46
September equinox07:2819:0519:37
December solstice07:3417:0517:42

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–Jun.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F515460667480828178695953

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bainbridge Intl Paper, 10 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Jan–Apr — fullest in Mar, leanest in Aug.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs530693836683452399330263303322343392

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Spring Creek Near Reynoldsville, GA, 2 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

  • Ringed Paper Wasp5 obs
  • buttonbush4 obs
  • Green Heron3 obs
  • red maple3 obs
  • American persimmon3 obs
  • frost grape3 obs
  • shining sumac3 obs
  • Limpkin2 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/3459104527

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