Castle Butte
Castle Butte rises to 949 m in California. Cache Peak stands 2,035 m to the west-northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Central Park, a park 3.9 miles away. 105 named places lie within 25 miles, 36 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in Kern County, California, United States.
Wikidata Q35732987, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 949 m
How to reach it
105 named places within 25 miles
- Desert Butte: 3.9 mi
- Galileo Hill: 9.7 mi
- Brown Butte: 12.5 mi
- De Stazo Hill: 14.0 mi
- Sanborn Hill: 14.7 mi
- Tolly Spring: 17.3 mi
- Cutterbank Spring: 18.5 mi
- Quail Spring: 18.7 mi
- Peeping Tom Spring: 18.8 mi
- Mesquite Springs: 19.4 mi
- Central Park: 3.9 mi
- J Kerman Cooper Field: 4.1 mi
- Borax Bill Park: 4.5 mi
- B Park: 6.7 mi
- Balsitis Park: 7.0 mi
- Desert Tortoise Habitat Area: 5.5 mi
- Desert Tortoise Preserve: 5.6 mi
- Desert Tortoise Natural Area: 13.4 mi
- Fremont Valley Ecological Reserve: 15.3 mi
- Red Cliffs Natural Preserve: 18.3 mi
- Rio Tinto Borax Mine Visitor Center: 12.2 mi
- Air Force Flight Test Center Museum: 14.1 mi
- Boron Aerospace Museum: 15.1 mi
- Twenty Mule Team Museum: 15.1 mi
- Century Circle: 18.0 mi
- Josephine Stephens Bishop: 14.7 mi
- X1 Loading Pit: 14.9 mi
- Fremont: 17.8 mi
- Cudahy camp: 20.7 mi
- Bickel Camp: 22.3 mi
- B-52: 8.4 mi
- Red cliffs trail: 18.1 mi
- Burro Schmidt Tunnel: 20.2 mi
- Donley: 15.9 mi
- Tamarisk Grove: 16.7 mi
- Red Rooster Picnic Site: 16.9 mi
- Boron Rest Area: 11.6 mi
- Last Chance Canyon Arch: 22.0 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Castle Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cache Peak | WNW 290° | 2,035 m | 22.3 mi |
| Middle Knob | W 280° | 1,891 m | 19.6 mi |
| Butterbredt Peak | NW 320° | 1,819 m | 24.3 mi |
| Red Mountain | W 276° | 1,743 m | 22.4 mi |
| Pajuela Peak | W 271° | 1,728 m | 23.6 mi |
| Cross Mountain | NW 308° | 1,586 m | 18.5 mi |
| Toms Hill | NW 314° | 1,536 m | 22.3 mi |
| Chuckwalla Mountain | NW 312° | 1,533 m | 16.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:56 | 18:30 | 19:04 |
| June solstice | 05:38 | 19:32 | 20:10 |
| September equinox | 06:40 | 18:16 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 06:57 | 16:05 | 16:44 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 45 | 48 | 53 | 58 | 67 | 77 | 83 | 82 | 75 | 64 | 52 | 44 |
| Precip in | 1.1 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mojave, 17 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 255437 — Castle Butte, Kern County, California.
OpenStreetMap element node/358796376
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