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Holly Springs National Forest

Matthew Nichols · CC BY-SA 3.0

78% trees around it and 6 species recorded.

66Forestyas Score

ForestNational forest

  • trees within 3 km78%
  • wild within 10 km90%
  • species recorded6
  • Altitude150 m

The forest around

78% 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 97%Grassland 2%Water 0%Cropland 0%Trees 76%Grassland 4%Water 1%Cropland 19%Trees 84%Grassland 5%Water 1%Cropland 10%Trees 85%Grassland 6%Water 1%Cropland 8%78%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km97%
  • 1–3 km76%
  • 3–6 km84%
  • 6–10 km85%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees76%
  • Grassland4%
  • Water1%
  • Cropland19%

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

6 species recorded.

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

Kudzu
KudzuPueraria montana13 recordsPhoto by Peggy Greb. · Public domain
Silktree
SilktreeAlbizia julibrissin4 recordsCmapm · Public domain
American buckwheat vine
American buckwheat vineBrunnichia ovata2 recordsChristopher Meloche, USDA ARS · Public domain

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

In numbers

The forest, measured.

66out of 100

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

  • 78%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 90%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 6Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 150 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking in March and in November.

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

  1. Jan9°-1°117 mm
  2. Feb12°1°143 mm
  3. Mar17°6°133 mm
  4. Apr22°10°142 mm
  5. May26°16°139 mm
  6. Jun31°20°114 mm
  7. Jul33°22°119 mm
  8. Aug33°21°103 mm
  9. Sep30°18°100 mm
  10. Oct24°11°118 mm
  11. Nov17°4°108 mm
  12. Dec11°1°148 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Holly Springs National Forest.

Nature area in Mississippi, United States

Holly Springs National Forest is a national forest in United States.

Seen from space, 78% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 90% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

6 species have been recorded around it: 3 plants, 0 fungi, 3 birds and 0 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Kudzu, Silktree and American buckwheat vine.

The best time to walk is in March and in November.

Holly Springs National Forest 2 - panoramio
Matthew Nichols · 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.

Holly Springs 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 Holly Springs 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.

    Peakyas15 mountains within 25 km
    Clemmer Hill1.8 kmBurge Hill4.0 kmBeulah Hill4.5 kmBanana Hill11 kmHeipsy Hills13 kmBald Knob14 kmHamer Hill17 kmHarper Hill17 km
    Lakeyas4 lakes within 15 km
    Lake Chautauqua0.4 km² · 9.1 kmMcGaughy Lake0.3 km² · 12 kmLittle Snow Lake0.4 km² · 13 kmSnow Lake0.7 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.

    Wolf-River-swamp-North-Mississippi
    Gary Bridgman · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Holly Springs NF 1
    Fredlyfish4 · CC BY-SA 3.0
    Timber Lake Pavilion - panoramio
    Matthew Nichols · CC BY-SA 3.0

    Other forests nearby.

    Holly Springs National Forest

    United States

    • 66Forestyas Score
    • 78%Trees
    • 90%Wild
    • 6Species

    Tombigbee National Forest

    United States · 167 km

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

    See the guide

    William B. Bankhead National Forest

    United States · 175 km

    • 83Forestyas Score
    • 93%Trees
    • 100%Wild
    • 103Species

    See the guide

    Delta National Forest

    United States · 267 km

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

    See the guide

    Where these figures come from

    Name and typeWikidata (Q3079126) · CC0
    Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
    Species71 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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