Nature reserve · Montana

State Trust

State Trust from directly overhead

State Trust is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 922 m. Square Butte stands 1,375 m to the south-southwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 1.8 miles away. 52 named places lie within 25 miles, 8 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Montana State Trust Lands

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates46.63422, -107.99382

Around it

52 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves41

BLM: 1.8 mi
BLM: 4.3 mi
State Trust: 5.2 mi
BLM: 6.5 mi
BLM: 7.1 mi

Peaks8

Twin Tops: 12.9 mi
Rattlesnake Buttes: 14.3 mi
Eagle Rock: 16.3 mi
Chimney Butte: 18.5 mi
Rattlesnake Butte: 18.6 mi

Springs2

Mud Spring: 12.5 mi
Circle Bar Spring: 16.5 mi

Ghost towns1

Hibbard: 16.3 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
Square Butte	SSW 206°	1,375 m	24.8 mi
Chimney Butte	SW 217°	1,115 m	18.5 mi
Eagle Rock	ESE 113°	1,109 m	16.3 mi
Twin Tops	ESE 123°	1,078 m	12.9 mi
Mail Box Hill	SSE 151°	1,076 m	23.3 mi
Kilby Butte	WSW 248°	1,075 m	19.3 mi
Rattlesnake Butte	NNW 332°	1,060 m	18.6 mi
Rattlesnake Buttes	NE 56°	962 m	14.3 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:16	18:45	19:25
June solstice	05:19	20:23	21:10
September equinox	07:00	18:32	19:11
December solstice	07:54	15:36	16:27

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	25	27	37	46	55	64	73	71	61	47	35	26
Precip in	0.5	0.4	0.8	1.8	2.9	2.8	1.5	1.1	1.2	1.3	0.6	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Melstone, 6 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186898339

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