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Tea Kettle Falls

Tea Kettle Falls, seen from above at true elevation

Tea Kettle Falls is a waterfall in Arkansas, at a modelled elevation of 370 m. Black Mountain stands 633 m to the east, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is McIlroy State Game Management Area, a park 2.9 miles away. Sugar Camp Scenic Byway passes 19 miles off.

What the record says

Height
14 m

How to reach it

Coordinates36.26620, -93.71484

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • McIlroy State Game Management Area: 2.9 mi
  • Withrow Springs State Park: 7.7 mi
  • Withrow Springs State Park: 7.7 mi
  • Basin Spring Park: 9.5 mi
  • Harding Park: 9.7 mi
Peaks
  • Swain Mountain: 3.2 mi
  • Stanley Mountain: 3.9 mi
  • Flower Pot Point: 4.9 mi
  • Samuel Mountain: 5.8 mi
  • Pension Mountain: 6.1 mi
Cliffs: 29
Museums: 13
Artworks: 13
Historic sites: 9
  • Civil War Healing: 9.4 mi
  • Madison County War Memorial: 12.4 mi
  • Clemens House site: 20.9 mi
  • Confederate Monument: 21.2 mi
  • Reunited Soldiery Monument: 21.2 mi
Springs: 7
  • Sweet Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Harding Spring: 9.7 mi
  • Congress Spring: 9.8 mi
  • Crescent Spring: 9.9 mi
  • Magnetic Springs: 10.0 mi
Gardens: 6
  • Vera Key Victorian Garden: 22.9 mi
  • Rogers Historial Museum Gardens: 22.9 mi
  • Lake Fayetteville Garden Bed: 24.3 mi
  • Botanical Garden of the Ozarks: 24.3 mi
  • Lake Fayetteville Trailhead Bioswale: 24.3 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Ghost towns: 4
Nature reserves: 4
Attractions: 3
  • Aviation Cadet World: 11.5 mi
  • Beebe's Roaring River Waterslide: 23.8 mi
  • Sky Zone: 23.9 mi
Rest areas: 1
  • short term/exstended trucker parking bathroom during busness hours: 21.8 mi
Natural arches: 1
  • Natural Bridge: 24.6 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.9 miles of Tea Kettle Falls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Black MountainE 100°633 m14.2 mi
Lone Tree MountainE 94°607 m13.5 mi
Chinkapin MountainESE 115°605 m12.6 mi
Dewees MountainESE 114°605 m14.4 mi
Waldrop MountainE 101°600 m14.7 mi
Gobbler PointESE 112°597 m14.9 mi
Walker MountainESE 111°587 m11.9 mi
Diera MountainSSE 158°580 m11.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1918:5319:27
June solstice05:5819:5820:36
September equinox07:0318:3919:13
December solstice07:2316:2417:04

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F384250596775797871614941
Precip in2.72.54.05.05.14.13.83.83.63.84.32.9

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Huntsville 1 SSW, 14 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: Feb–May — fullest in Apr, leanest in Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs29037656971566723312671.564.7151225302

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge War Eagle Creek near Hindsville, AR, 9 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/11822519188

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