Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum
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Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum is a museum in Wyoming, at a modelled elevation of 1,417 m. Cloud Peak stands 4,017 m to the west, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Crazy Woman Square, a park 0.1 miles away. Cloud Peak Skyway passes 8.1 miles off. 77 named places lie within 25 miles, 42 of them named summits.
The story
The Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum is an American West museum in Buffalo, Wyoming, housed in a 1909 Carnegie Library building.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1957.
Wikidata Q14714748, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 8.1 mi off the Cloud Peak Skyway
Overlooks nearby
77 named places within 25 miles
- Grouse Mountain: 7.9 mi
- Sisters Hill: 9.9 mi
- Crazy Woman Mountain: 11.9 mi
- Stone Mountain: 12.3 mi
- Hunter Mesa: 13.4 mi
- Crazy Woman Square: 0.1 mi
- Prosinski Park: 0.2 mi
- Buffalo City Park: 0.3 mi
- Cull Watt Park: 9.3 mi
- Father DeSmet Historical Monument: 9.6 mi
- Mosier Springs: 9.3 mi
- Mosier Springs: 9.3 mi
- Hospital Hill Springs: 9.8 mi
- Hospital Hill Springs: 9.8 mi
- East Hunter Mesa Spring: 11.1 mi
- Fort Phil Kearny: 14.1 mi
- Fetterman Monument: 16.9 mi
- Wagon Box Battle Monument: 17.5 mi
- North Fork Picnic Area: 12.3 mi
- Fort Phil Kearny Visitor Center: 14.3 mi
- Spear Lake Cliff: 24.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Peak | W 276° | 4,017 m | 23.5 mi |
| Merlon | W 276° | 3,975 m | 23.3 mi |
| Mount Woolsey | W 279° | 3,942 m | 23.8 mi |
| Kramer Peak | W 277° | 3,918 m | 23.4 mi |
| Bomber South Peak | W 273° | 3,901 m | 22.3 mi |
| Sawtooth Mountain | W 280° | 3,854 m | 22.6 mi |
| Innominate | W 279° | 3,853 m | 23.7 mi |
| Hallelujah | W 280° | 3,837 m | 23.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:41 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:23 | 20:11 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:28 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 15:43 | 16:31 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 24 | 33 | 41 | 50 | 60 | 68 | 66 | 57 | 43 | 32 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 1.5 | 2.8 | 2.2 | 1.4 | 0.8 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Buffalo, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 76001949OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial site- National Register of Historic Places — Carnegie Public Library, reference 76001949, listed 11/07/76.
OpenStreetMap element way/785374924
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