Nature reserve · North Dakota

Crimmins WPA

Crimmins WPA from directly overhead

Crimmins WPA is a nature reserve in North Dakota, at a modelled elevation of 595 m. Haystack Butte stands 668 m to the south, 6.2 miles off. The nearest named place is Bunker Lake State Game Management Area, a nature reserve 2.0 miles away. 23 named places lie within 25 miles, 4 of them named summits.

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Operated by: United States Fish and Wildlife Service

Getting there

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Coordinates47.26175, -100.35295

Around it

23 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves16

Bunker Lake State Game Management Area: 2.0 mi
Bernhardt WPA: 3.1 mi
Oster WPA: 4.7 mi
Rohrbach WPA: 5.5 mi
Dockter WPA: 6.9 mi

Peaks4

Haystack Butte: 6.2 mi
Klinks Slope: 16.7 mi
Sibley Butte: 21.1 mi
Twin Buttes: 22.8 mi

Parks3

Arena State Game Management Area: 14.5 mi
Silbaugh Park: 15.8 mi
Wilton Mine State Game Management Area: 19.7 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Haystack Butte	S 173°	668 m	6.2 mi
Twin Buttes	SW 232°	659 m	22.8 mi
Sibley Butte	S 181°	640 m	21.1 mi
Klinks Slope	NW 325°	618 m	16.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:45	19:14	19:54
June solstice	05:46	20:54	21:42
September equinox	07:29	19:01	19:41
December solstice	08:26	16:02	16:54

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	13	17	29	44	57	67	72	71	62	46	30	18
Precip in	0.5	0.5	0.7	1.2	2.5	3.4	2.5	2.3	1.9	1.4	0.7	0.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — MC Clusky, 16 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1420829878

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