Nature reserve · North Dakota

Cottonwood Lake National Wildlife Refuge

Cottonwood Lake National Wildlife Refuge from directly overhead

Cottonwood Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a nature reserve in North Dakota, at a recorded elevation of 494 m. Dogden Butte stands 686 m to the southwest, 6.0 miles off. The nearest named place is Little Butte, a peak 5.2 miles away. 14 named places lie within 25 miles, 8 of them named summits.

The record

What the record says

Elevation: 494 m

Getting there

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Coordinates47.87728, -100.67354

Around it

14 named places within 25 miles

Peaks8

Little Butte: 5.2 mi
Dogden Butte: 6.0 mi
Montgomery Hill: 11.5 mi
Black Butte: 22.3 mi
Bison: 22.7 mi

Nature reserves3

National Waterfoul Production Area: 12.8 mi
National Waterfoul Production Area: 13.1 mi
Lake Nettie National Wildlife Refuge: 23.6 mi

Parks1

Wintering River National Wildlife Refuge: 5.7 mi

Ghost towns1

Verendrye: 17.1 mi

Historic sites1

David Thompson Historical Monument: 17.3 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Dogden Butte	SW 223°	686 m	6.0 mi
Little Butte	WNW 301°	529 m	5.2 mi
Black Butte	NW 314°	522 m	22.3 mi
Bald Butte	NE 40°	521 m	23.6 mi
Bison	NE 55°	512 m	22.7 mi
Skinner Hill	NW 308°	511 m	23.8 mi
Montgomery Hill	NE 47°	494 m	11.5 mi
Mikes Peak	NNW 347°	490 m	24.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:46	19:15	19:55
June solstice	05:44	20:57	21:46
September equinox	07:30	19:02	19:42
December solstice	08:30	16:00	16:53

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	10	14	26	41	54	64	69	68	59	44	28	16

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Butte 5SE, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1025578751

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