Nature reserve · Montana

USFWS

USFWS from directly overhead

USFWS is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 597 m. Snake Butte stands 804 m to the south, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is State Trust, a nature reserve 1.0 miles away. 42 named places lie within 25 miles, 6 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: US Fish and Wildlife Service

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates48.58328, -104.12406

Around it

42 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves17

State Trust: 1.0 mi
USFWS: 2.5 mi
USFWS: 3.3 mi
State Trust: 4.8 mi
State Trust: 6.9 mi

Parks14

Brush Lake State Park: 1.5 mi
Sunset Park: 8.7 mi
McInenly Park: 18.0 mi
Medicine Lake Memorial Park: 18.0 mi
Writing Rock Park: 18.2 mi

Peaks6

Brush Mountain: 7.8 mi
Barr Butte: 10.5 mi
Umbrights Hill: 13.7 mi
Bull Butte: 17.5 mi
Clay Butte: 22.0 mi

Ghost towns2

Comertown: 22.4 mi
Dooley: 23.9 mi

Museums2

Sheridan County Agriculture Museum and Civic Center: 22.9 mi
Sheridan County Museum: 22.9 mi

Cliffs1

Sowers Bluff: 7.2 mi

On the horizon

Summits around it

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

Summit	Bearing	Elevation	Distance
Snake Butte	S 185°	804 m	22.3 mi
Bull Butte	SSE 166°	785 m	17.5 mi
Clay Butte	SSW 193°	739 m	22.0 mi
Barr Butte	E 99°	696 m	10.5 mi
Brush Mountain	SSE 166°	672 m	7.8 mi
Umbrights Hill	WSW 244°	607 m	13.7 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:00	18:28	19:09
June solstice	04:55	20:14	21:03
September equinox	06:44	18:15	18:56
December solstice	07:47	15:09	16:04

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	11	15	28	42	54	63	69	68	57	42	27	16
Precip in	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.9	2.4	2.9	2.6	1.5	1.2	0.9	0.4	0.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Medicine Lake 3 SE, 17 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/186902438

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