Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 1,025 m. Greasy Hill stands 1,238 m to the southeast, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 1.5 miles away. 41 named summits stand within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates45.47845, -105.14558

Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves

BLM: 1.5 mi
BLM: 2.6 mi
BLM: 4.6 mi
BLM: 5.5 mi
BLM: 6.1 mi

Peaks41

Little Pilgrim Butte: 2.3 mi
Shipley Butte: 3.1 mi
Buffalo Butte: 4.2 mi
Lightning Butte: 7.4 mi
Deer Creek Buttes: 7.5 mi

Museums2

Powder River Historical Museum & Macs Museum: 13.0 mi
Wildlife Museum: 13.0 mi

Springs2

Selway Spring: 16.3 mi
Church Spring: 17.0 mi

Parks1

Cottonwood Park: 13.0 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Greasy Hill	SE 136°	1,238 m	23.9 mi
Tip Top Butte	ESE 120°	1,182 m	24.9 mi
Eldon Mountain	SW 221°	1,171 m	19.9 mi
Saddle Butte	ENE 57°	1,134 m	19.6 mi
Dry Creek Butte	SSW 191°	1,132 m	14.8 mi
Rattlesnake Butte	W 260°	1,130 m	24.1 mi
East Fork Buttes	SSW 197°	1,119 m	8.6 mi
Morellas Butte	SSE 156°	1,118 m	10.9 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:05	18:34	19:13
June solstice	05:13	20:08	20:54
September equinox	06:48	18:21	19:00
December solstice	07:38	15:31	16:21

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, 13 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186898315

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