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De Soto National Forest

Woodlot · CC BY-SA 3.0

91% trees around it and 98 species recorded.

83Forestyas Score

ForestNational forestDense canopyWild

  • trees within 3 km91%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded98
  • Altitude90 m

The forest around

91% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 94%Grassland 6%Trees 90%Grassland 9%Cropland 0%Built-up 0%Trees 97%Grassland 2%Cropland 0%Trees 98%Grassland 2%91%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km94%
  • 1–3 km90%
  • 3–6 km97%
  • 6–10 km98%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees90%
  • Grassland9%
  • Cropland0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

98 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Showy rattlebox
Showy rattleboxCrotalaria spectabilis5 recordsJohn D. Bird, MS State University, USA, bugwood.org · CC BY 3.0 us
Loblolly bay
Loblolly bayGordonia lasianthus5 recordsKristof Zyskowski · CC BY 4.0
Yellow passionflower
Yellow passionflowerPassiflora lutea4 recordsTheAlphaWolf · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lanceleaf tickseed
Lanceleaf tickseedCoreopsis lanceolata4 recordsUser:Qwertzy2 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Clinopodium carolinianum
Clinopodium carolinianumClinopodium carolinianum4 recordsLounsberry, Alice.; Rowan, Marian Ellis Ryan · Public domain
Scouringrush Horsetail
Scouringrush HorsetailEquisetum praealtum4 recordsCaromallo · CC BY-SA 3.0
Smallfruit spikerush
Smallfruit spikerushEleocharis microcarpa3 recordsStone, Witmer, 1866-1939 · No restrictions
Slender Wood Sedge
Slender Wood SedgeCarex digitalis3 recordsBritton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Can · Public domain
White oak
White oakQuercus alba2 recordsMarty Aligata · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scentless bayberryMorella inodora5 records
Rhododendron serrulatumRhododendron serrulatum3 records
Appalachian blazing starLiatris squarrulosa3 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

83out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 91%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 98Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 90 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in November.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan15°4°112 mm
  2. Feb17°6°127 mm
  3. Mar21°10°127 mm
  4. Apr25°13°125 mm
  5. May29°18°119 mm
  6. Jun32°22°161 mm
  7. Jul33°23°163 mm
  8. Aug32°23°165 mm
  9. Sep31°20°129 mm
  10. Oct26°14°101 mm
  11. Nov20°8°84 mm
  12. Dec16°5°148 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

De Soto National Forest.

National forest in Mississippi, United States

De Soto National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 91% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

98 species have been recorded around it: 41 plants, 1 fungi, 54 birds and 2 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Showy rattlebox, Loblolly bay and Yellow passionflower.

The best time to walk is in November.

DeSoto National Forest
Woodlot · CC BY-SA 3.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

De Soto National Forest seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

    • marked trails within 5 km
    • named and notable trees within 6 km
    • picnic sites within 4 km
    • shelters and huts within 6 km
    • viewpoints within 5 km
    • visitor centres within 6 km
    • car parks within 3 km
    • campsites within 10 km
    • places to stay within 10 km
    • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

    Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

    In our other atlases

    Around De Soto National Forest.

    The mountains, lakes, rivers, waterfalls and canyons around this forest, the viewpoints above it, the birds and the night sky, in the family's atlases.

    Peakyas5 mountains within 25 km
    Taylor Hill8.6 kmDeadman Hill9.4 kmWolf Hill13 kmThompson Hill15 kmWhiskey Creek Hills20 km
    Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
    Lake Perry0.3 km² · 14 km

    Figures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap). Links open when each site is online.

    Photographs

    The forest, as people saw it.

    DeSotoNationalForest
    Joe Furr (myself) · Public domain
    Buttercup Flats Sign
    Woodlot · CC BY-SA 4.0
    2021-09-11 Veloporphyrellus conicus (Ravenel) B. Ortiz, Yan C. Li, Zhu L. Yang 1379976
    This image was created by user Logan Wiedenfeld (LoganW) at Mushroom Observer , a source f · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Other forests nearby.

    De Soto National Forest

    United States

    • 83Forestyas Score
    • 91%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 98Species

    Bienville National Forest

    United States · 145 km

    • 78Forestyas Score
    • 84%Trees
    • 99%Wild
    • 36Species

    See the guide

    Tombigbee National Forest

    United States · 245 km

    • 87Forestyas Score
    • 94%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 253Species

    See the guide

    Delta National Forest

    United States · 256 km

    • 76Forestyas Score
    • 100%Trees
    • 84%Wild
    • 73Species

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q286662) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species559 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
    See these recordsgbif.org
    Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
    Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
    What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
    ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
    Sister atlasesPeakyas, Lakeyas

    Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

    The family

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