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Petrel

Petrel from directly overhead

Petrel is a ghost town in North Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 782 m. White Butte stands 888 m to the southwest, 9.0 miles off. The nearest named place is North Dakota - South Dakota boundary monument 276, a historic site 0.6 miles away. 52 named places lie within 25 miles, 18 of them named summits.

human settlement in Adams County, North Dakota, United States of America

The record

What the record says

Founded
1908
Getting there

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Coordinates45.94833, -102.27722
Around it

52 named places within 25 miles

Historic sites: 19
Peaks: 18
  • Robbers Butte: 7.1 mi
  • Twin Buttes: 7.4 mi
  • White Butte: 9.0 mi
  • Barths Butte: 9.5 mi
  • Spring Butte: 11.7 mi
Parks: 10
  • North Lemmon Park: 5.2 mi
  • Boss Cowman Square: 5.7 mi
  • Lemmon Petrified Wood Park: 5.7 mi
  • Lemmon City Park: 5.7 mi
  • North Lemmon Lake State Game Management Area: 7.0 mi
Museums: 3
  • Grand River Museum: 5.6 mi
  • Lemmon Petrified Wood Museum: 5.7 mi
  • Dakota Buttes Museum: 17.2 mi
Artworks: 1
  • Cowboy Riding a Dinosaur: 5.7 mi
Nature reserves: 1
  • Cedar River National Grassland: 21.4 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
White ButteSW 221°888 m9.0 mi
Castle ButteW 267°869 m12.0 mi
Long ButteN 3°854 m14.0 mi
Pearl ButteNW 326°850 m12.2 mi
Kid Rich ButteW 260°843 m16.5 mi
Taylor ButteNW 316°842 m20.1 mi
Big ButteWNW 284°837 m13.5 mi
Wolf ButteW 261°835 m15.3 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5318:2219:02
June solstice04:5919:5820:44
September equinox06:3718:0918:49
December solstice07:2915:1716:07

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F192233455666737162473322
Precip in0.30.50.81.72.83.02.72.11.51.50.60.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lemmon, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location confirmed against Wikidata.

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