Nature reserve · Montana

US DOD

US DOD from directly overhead

US DOD is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 909 m. Haystack Butte stands 880 m to the southeast, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is BLM, a nature reserve 6.1 miles away. 20 named places lie within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: US Department of Defense

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.99938, -108.42070

Around it

20 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves19

BLM: 6.1 mi
BLM: 7.6 mi
State Trust: 8.6 mi
BLM: 9.0 mi
BLM: 9.9 mi

Peaks1

Haystack Butte: 21.7 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Haystack Butte	SE 145°	880 m	21.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:17	18:45	19:27
June solstice	05:10	20:32	21:22
September equinox	07:01	18:32	19:14
December solstice	09:06	16:24	17:19

Local time (America/Swift_Current).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	16	19	30	43	53	61	68	67	57	44	29	18
Precip in	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.8	2.0	3.0	1.6	1.0	1.2	0.7	0.5	0.4

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Turner 11N, 1 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186899742

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