Dripping Springs
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. 112 named places lie within 25 miles, 25 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
- 0.3 mi off the Cherokee Hills Byway, National
112 named places within 25 miles
- 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
- Mission Mountain: 10.9 mi
- Bates Mountain: 12.7 mi
- Bell Mountain: 15.0 mi
- Roundtop: 15.2 mi
- Alberty Mountain: 15.5 mi
- 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
- Hogshooter Bluff: 8.7 mi
- Pine Bluff: 9.3 mi
- Eagles Bluff: 12.2 mi
- Hanging Rock: 14.1 mi
- Black Fox Bluff: 15.7 mi
- Grand Army of the Republic Memorial: 7.1 mi
- OKARMO Corner: 22.6 mi
- Battle Monument: 23.9 mi
- ELM SPRINGS IN THE CIVIL WAR: 24.2 mi
- Elm Springs Civil War monument: 24.2 mi
- Eldorado Springs: 15.3 mi
- Blewford: 18.8 mi
- Sexton: 20.0 mi
- Piney: 21.2 mi
- KCS Decatur Depot: 16.0 mi
- KCS Caboose Number 383: 20.9 mi
- All American Floats: 22.3 mi
- Stump Prairie: 9.9 mi
- Chesney Prairie Natural Area: 10.6 mi
- 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.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Hill | SSE 149° | 531 m | 22.2 mi |
| Weddington Mountain | ESE 123° | 487 m | 15.9 mi |
| Cane Hill Mountain | SE 134° | 482 m | 23.1 mi |
| Roundtop | ESE 119° | 456 m | 15.2 mi |
| West Mountain | SSE 151° | 455 m | 16.8 mi |
| Bell Mountain | SE 142° | 445 m | 15.0 mi |
| Snake Mountain | SSE 155° | 436 m | 19.1 mi |
| Sugartree Mountain | SSE 149° | 434 m | 19.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:23 | 18:57 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 06:03 | 20:02 | 20:40 |
| September equinox | 07:07 | 18:43 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:27 | 16:28 | 17:08 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 39 | 43 | 52 | 61 | 68 | 76 | 81 | 80 | 73 | 62 | 50 | 42 |
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.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 114 | 121 | 175 | 197 | 211 | 150 | 75.4 | 50.7 | 57.5 | 79.5 | 116 | 131 |
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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/11758910705
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