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Wildlife Museum

Wildlife Museum from directly overhead

Wildlife Museum is a museum in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 924 m. Gardner Butte stands 1,306 m to the west-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Cottonwood Park, a park 0.3 miles away. 47 named summits stand within 25 miles.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 924 m

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates45.43666, -105.40749

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

BLM: 4.2 mi
BLM: 5.4 mi
BLM: 5.6 mi
BLM: 5.7 mi
BLM: 6.4 mi

Peaks47

Preston Buttes: 2.3 mi
Sand Creek Hill: 5.2 mi
Fivemile Hill: 5.2 mi
Lideen Hill: 8.6 mi
Fighting Butte: 9.1 mi

Springs2

Selway Spring: 24.2 mi
Church Spring: 24.6 mi

Parks1

Cottonwood Park: 0.3 mi

Museums1

Powder River Historical Museum & Macs Museum: 0.6 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Gardner Butte	WSW 251°	1,306 m	23.7 mi
Threemile Buttes	W 277°	1,297 m	24.7 mi
Bear Skull Mountain	S 185°	1,295 m	20.7 mi
Baldy Peak	SSW 200°	1,293 m	16.7 mi
Bailey Hill	WSW 250°	1,282 m	23.9 mi
Yarger Butte	SW 230°	1,199 m	16.5 mi
Castle Rock	W 263°	1,190 m	14.8 mi
Eldon Mountain	S 182°	1,171 m	12.2 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:06	18:35	19:14
June solstice	05:14	20:09	20:54
September equinox	06:49	18:22	19:01
December solstice	07:39	15:32	16:22

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	24	27	38	47	56	67	75	73	62	49	35	26
Precip in	0.4	0.5	0.8	1.8	2.7	2.4	1.7	1.3	1.2	1.1	0.5	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Broadus, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/366093932

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