Nature reserve · Montana

USFWS

USFWS from directly overhead

USFWS is a nature reserve in Montana, at a modelled elevation of 627 m. Barr Butte stands 696 m to the south-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is State Trust, a nature reserve 4.5 miles away. 39 named places lie within 25 miles, 3 of them named summits.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: US Fish and Wildlife Service

Getting there

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Coordinates48.78907, -104.11660

Around it

39 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves19

State Trust: 4.5 mi
USFWS: 4.7 mi
State Trust: 7.5 mi
USFWS: 9.4 mi
State Trust: 11.3 mi

Parks12

Noelle Meyer Memorial Park: 6.2 mi
Onstad Park: 6.2 mi
Comer Park: 9.8 mi
Writing Rock Park: 11.7 mi
Brush Lake State Park: 12.9 mi

Peaks3

Barr Butte: 18.7 mi
Brush Mountain: 21.8 mi
Umbrights Hill: 23.8 mi

Ghost towns2

Comertown: 9.6 mi
Dooley: 13.9 mi

Museums2

Sheridan County Agriculture Museum and Civic Center: 19.3 mi
Sheridan County Museum: 19.3 mi

Cliffs1

Sowers Bluff: 18.3 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
Barr Butte	SSE 147°	696 m	18.7 mi
Brush Mountain	S 176°	672 m	21.8 mi
Umbrights Hill	SSW 212°	607 m	23.8 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	07:00	18:28	19:09
June solstice	04:54	20:14	21:04
September equinox	06:44	18:15	18:56
December solstice	08:48	16:08	17:03

Local time (America/Regina).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	9	13	25	40	52	62	67	66	55	41	25	14
Precip in	0.4	0.4	0.6	1.0	2.2	3.1	2.5	1.6	1.3	1.0	0.5	0.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Westby, 7 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/185785701

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