Nature reserve · Montana

BLM

BLM from directly overhead

BLM is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 637 m. Flag Butte stands 835 m to the south, 20 miles off. 68 named places lie within 25 miles, 7 of them named summits.

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Operated by: US Bureau of Land Management

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Coordinates48.09422, -104.83086

Around it

68 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves47

BLM: 2.1 mi
BLM: 2.4 mi
BLM: 3.7 mi
BLM: 4.6 mi
BLM: 5.2 mi

Peaks7

Haystack Butte: 6.6 mi
Twomile Hill: 6.7 mi
Sugar Top Hill: 18.7 mi
Three Buttes: 19.2 mi
Flag Butte: 19.9 mi

Parks6

Swimming Pool Park: 14.6 mi
C C Recreation Complex: 14.9 mi
Bruegger Centennial Park: 15.1 mi
Fort Peck Indian Reservation Historical Marker: 17.0 mi
American Legion Park: 17.2 mi

Cliffs4

Balls Bluff: 3.6 mi
Mortarstone Bluff: 4.4 mi
Rocky Point: 14.2 mi
The Point: 20.9 mi

Museums4

Poplar Museum: 15.8 mi
Culbertson Museum: 16.0 mi
Fort Peck Tribal Museum: 16.4 mi
Poplar Museum: 16.7 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Flag Butte	S 172°	835 m	19.9 mi
Blue Hill	ESE 117°	801 m	21.4 mi
Lone Butte	SE 131°	784 m	22.2 mi
Three Buttes	ESE 103°	765 m	19.2 mi
Haystack Butte	SW 236°	734 m	6.6 mi
Sugar Top Hill	ENE 67°	695 m	18.7 mi
Twomile Hill	WNW 296°	616 m	6.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:03	18:31	19:12
June solstice	05:00	20:15	21:04
September equinox	06:47	18:18	18:59
December solstice	07:48	15:15	16:09

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	13	18	31	45	56	65	71	70	60	45	29	17
Precip in	0.4	0.3	0.5	0.9	2.3	2.9	2.7	1.4	1.3	0.9	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Culbertson, 15 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185214798

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