Cooks Butte
Cooks Butte rises to 1,916 m in Nevada. Mount Lewis stands 2,950 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Gold Acres, a ghost town 2.0 miles away. 64 named places lie within 25 miles, 24 of them named summits.
The story
Summit in Lander County, Nevada, United States.
Wikidata Q49077165, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,916 m
How to reach it
64 named places within 25 miles
- Tub Spring: 8.9 mi
- Rock Spring: 9.3 mi
- Mud Spring: 10.2 mi
- House Springs: 10.3 mi
- Wilson Springs: 11.0 mi
- Altenburg Hill: 5.8 mi
- Bullion Mountain: 9.2 mi
- Dome Peak: 9.5 mi
- O'Haras Peak: 10.0 mi
- Granite Mountain: 10.2 mi
- Gold Acres: 2.0 mi
- Tenabo: 6.7 mi
- Lander: 7.1 mi
- Bullion: 7.6 mi
- Cortez: 10.2 mi
- Reese River Valley Hot Springs: 18.9 mi
- The Geysers: 24.1 mi
- Walti Hot Springs: 24.6 mi
- Crescent Valley Community Park: 15.2 mi
- Malpais: 19.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cooks Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Lewis | NNW 333° | 2,950 m | 12.9 mi |
| Goat Peak | NW 314° | 2,741 m | 11.5 mi |
| Mount Tenabo | ESE 120° | 2,725 m | 10.2 mi |
| Dome Peak | NW 326° | 2,610 m | 9.5 mi |
| Elephant Head | WSW 238° | 2,559 m | 15.8 mi |
| Horse Mountain | WNW 282° | 2,502 m | 10.8 mi |
| Havingdon Peak | N 350° | 2,497 m | 11.2 mi |
| Bullion Mountain | N 2° | 2,429 m | 9.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:51 | 18:23 | 18:59 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 19:40 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:35 | 18:10 | 18:46 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 15:42 | 16:25 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 33 | 40 | 45 | 53 | 62 | 71 | 69 | 60 | 48 | 38 | 28 |
| Precip in | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.9 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Beowawe 49S - U OF N RCH, 25 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357549653
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