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Dripping Springs

Dripping Springs, seen from above at true elevation

Dripping Springs is a waterfall in Oklahoma, at a modelled elevation of 305 m. Sugar Hill stands 531 m to the south-southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Natural Falls State Park, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Cherokee Hills Byway passes 0.3 miles off. 117 named places lie within 25 miles, 27 of them named summits.

The story

spring in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States of America

Wikidata Q34971013, matched on coordinates and name (41 m apart).

What the record says

Height
23.4 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.17417, -94.66777

117 named places within 25 miles

Parks: 56
  • Natural Falls State Park: 0.0 mi
  • Bob Henry Park: 6.7 mi
  • Koala Park: 7.0 mi
  • Siloam Springs City Park: 7.0 mi
  • Twin Springs Park: 7.1 mi
Peaks: 27
  • Mission Mountain: 10.9 mi
  • Bates Mountain: 12.7 mi
  • Bell Mountain: 15.0 mi
  • Roundtop: 15.2 mi
  • Alberty Mountain: 15.5 mi
Museums: 10
  • Siloam Springs Museum Society: 7.2 mi
  • Saline Courthouse Museum: 19.2 mi
  • Arkansas Country Doctor Museum: 20.6 mi
  • Historic Cane Hill Museum: 23.8 mi
  • Methodist Mance: 23.8 mi
Cliffs: 8
Historic sites: 5
Ghost towns: 4
Attractions: 3
Nature reserves: 2
Springs: 2
  • Anderson Spring: 22.3 mi
  • Elm Spring: 24.2 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Sugar HillSSE 149°531 m22.2 mi
Weddington MountainESE 123°487 m15.9 mi
Cane Hill MountainSE 134°482 m23.1 mi
RoundtopESE 119°456 m15.2 mi
West MountainSSE 151°455 m16.8 mi
West MountainS 179°450 m24.6 mi
Bell MountainSE 142°445 m15.0 mi
Snake MountainSSE 155°436 m19.1 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:2318:5719:31
June solstice06:0320:0220:40
September equinox07:0718:4319:17
December solstice07:2716:2817:08

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 5080 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394352616876818073625042

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kansas 2 NE, 7 mi away.

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

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs11412117519721115075.450.757.579.5116131

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Flint Creek near Kansas, OK, 2 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/11758910705

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