Flat Top Butte
Flat Top Butte rises to 1,295 m in Idaho. Kinzie Butte stands 1,486 m to the north, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Becker Park, a park 4.3 miles away. Thousand Springs Scenic Byway passes 6.4 miles off. 106 named places lie within 25 miles, 17 of them named summits.
The story
mountain in Jerome County, Idaho, United States of America
Wikidata Q49029469, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1295 m
How to reach it
- 6.4 mi off the Thousand Springs Scenic Byway
- 14.1 mi off the Sawtooth Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Shoshone Falls Observation Deck · 10 mi
- Hansen Bridge Lookout · 13 mi
- viewpoint 1 · 24 mi
- viewpoint 2 · 25 mi
106 named places within 25 miles
- Becker Park: 4.3 mi
- Gayle Forsyth Memorial Park: 4.5 mi
- Camozzi Park: 4.9 mi
- Candlelight Park: 5.1 mi
- Centennial Heritage Park: 5.2 mi
- Notch Butte: 10.5 mi
- Wilson Butte: 10.9 mi
- Skeleton Butte: 13.8 mi
- Crater Butte: 17.0 mi
- Cinder Butte: 17.8 mi
- Military Police Building: 9.2 mi
- Honor Roll: 9.2 mi
- Reception Building: 9.2 mi
- Honor Roll: 9.2 mi
- Gas Station: 9.4 mi
- Auger Falls: 8.9 mi
- Pillar Falls: 9.3 mi
- Shoshone Falls: 9.5 mi
- Perrine Coulee Falls: 9.8 mi
- Devils Washboard Falls: 19.0 mi
- Jerome County Historical Museum: 5.2 mi
- Herrett Museum: 10.6 mi
- Twin Falls County Museum: 13.5 mi
- Richard Arthur Olsen Museum of Natural History: 23.4 mi
- Shoshone Bird Museum of Natural History: 23.4 mi
- Jerome County Fairgrounds: 5.8 mi
- Evel Knievel Jump Site: 9.4 mi
- Shoshone Falls: 9.6 mi
- Lincoln County Fairgrounds: 13.9 mi
- Shoshone Falls: 9.5 mi
- Eagle Bluff: 20.8 mi
- Rose Garden: 10.8 mi
- Ritter Island: 21.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Flat Top Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kinzie Butte | N 10° | 1,486 m | 24.9 mi |
| Sid Butte | ENE 71° | 1,453 m | 24.5 mi |
| Berger Butte | SSW 207° | 1,430 m | 23.8 mi |
| Dietrich Butte | NE 35° | 1,412 m | 17.9 mi |
| Hub Butte | S 189° | 1,404 m | 21.1 mi |
| Owinza Butte | ENE 62° | 1,352 m | 20.4 mi |
| Hazelton Butte | SE 126° | 1,342 m | 20.3 mi |
| Skeleton Butte | SE 137° | 1,340 m | 13.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:13 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:00 | 20:37 | 21:20 |
| September equinox | 07:26 | 18:59 | 19:37 |
| December solstice | 08:06 | 16:22 | 17:07 |
Local time (America/Boise).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 33 | 42 | 48 | 57 | 65 | 74 | 72 | 63 | 51 | 38 | 29 |
| Precip in | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 0.6 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Jerome CO AP, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 396495 — Flat Top Butte, Jerome County, Idaho.
OpenStreetMap element node/358661730
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