Giants Coffins Butte
Giants Coffins Butte rises to 1,285 m in Nebraska. Pants Butte stands 1,449 m to the west-northwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Lovers Leap Butte, a peak 0.3 miles away. Bridges to Buttes Byway passes 0.7 miles off. 64 named places lie within 25 miles, 30 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34916178, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,285 m
How to reach it
- 0.7 mi off the Bridges to Buttes Byway
- 22.1 mi off the Gold Rush Byway
64 named places within 25 miles
- Lovers Leap Butte: 0.3 mi
- Red Cloud Buttes: 0.5 mi
- Saddle Rock: 0.6 mi
- Crow Butte: 6.3 mi
- Little Crow Butte: 6.6 mi
- Crawford City Park: 1.7 mi
- Finnegan Park: 2.1 mi
- Fort Robinson Wildlife Area: 4.9 mi
- Peterson State Special Use Area: 6.5 mi
- Cochran State Wayside Area: 6.8 mi
- Fort Robinson State Park Museum: 1.3 mi
- Fort Robinson History Center: 1.4 mi
- Trailside Museum of Natural History: 1.5 mi
- Crawford Historical Museum: 2.0 mi
- Sioux County Museum: 21.8 mi
- Prehistoric Prairies Discovery Center: 2.1 mi
- Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center: 12.4 mi
- Daemonilix: 24.4 mi
- Split Daemonilix: 24.5 mi
- Crawford School Bell Historical Marker: 2.3 mi
- Fort Laramie - Fort Robinson Trail Historical Marker: 20.5 mi
- Chadron Creek Trading Post Historical Marker: 23.1 mi
- West Ash Creek Picnic Area: 11.0 mi
- C-Hill: 24.5 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Giants Coffins Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pants Butte | WNW 282° | 1,449 m | 18.6 mi |
| First Woman Mound | ESE 123° | 1,420 m | 11.8 mi |
| Carnegie Hill | SW 217° | 1,367 m | 23.3 mi |
| Pine Butte | NW 323° | 1,366 m | 11.9 mi |
| University Hill | SW 217° | 1,359 m | 23.2 mi |
| Roundtop | NW 325° | 1,346 m | 11.6 mi |
| Red Cloud Buttes | W 277° | 1,308 m | 0.5 mi |
| Crown Butte | ESE 102° | 1,288 m | 7.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:53 | 20:36 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:22 | 15:38 | 16:24 |
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 | 26 | 28 | 38 | 46 | 55 | 66 | 74 | 73 | 62 | 47 | 35 | 27 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — FT Robinson, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 835573 — Giants Coffins Butte, Dawes County, Nebraska.
OpenStreetMap element node/357765020
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