Nature reserve · Montana

Local Government

Local Government from directly overhead

Local Government is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 895 m. Coal Mine Hill stands 1,007 m to the north-northeast, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is State Trust, a nature reserve 2.6 miles away. 59 named places lie within 25 miles, 11 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Local Government

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.66765, -106.61449

Around it

59 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves43

State Trust: 2.6 mi
State: 4.4 mi
Local Government: 6.1 mi
State Trust: 7.3 mi
State Trust: 11.6 mi

Peaks11

Laundry Hill: 13.3 mi
Coal Mine Hill: 15.5 mi
Lookout: 15.6 mi
Round Butte: 15.8 mi
Landre Hills: 16.4 mi

Parks2

Opheim Park: 16.0 mi
Liquid Gold Historical Marker: 22.1 mi

Cliffs1

Cameron Point: 14.0 mi

Attractions1

Opheim Fairgrounds: 16.1 mi

Ghost towns1

Thoeny: 20.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Coal Mine Hill	NNE 17°	1,007 m	15.5 mi
Round Butte	NE 36°	962 m	19.4 mi
Glass Hill	NE 47°	960 m	21.8 mi
White Highland Hills	ENE 76°	943 m	23.9 mi
Johnnys Hill	ENE 78°	930 m	24.6 mi
Lookout	SE 141°	910 m	15.6 mi
Laundry Hill	SW 228°	906 m	13.3 mi
Round Butte	N 4°	896 m	15.8 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:10	18:38	19:19
June solstice	05:05	20:24	21:14
September equinox	06:54	18:25	19:06
December solstice	07:57	15:18	16:13

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	8	11	23	36	47	56	62	62	51	37	22	11
Precip in	0.3	0.2	0.3	0.8	2.1	3.1	2.1	1.1	1.1	0.7	0.3	0.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Opheim 12 SSE, 14 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185783194

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