Halls Butt
Halls Butt rises to 944 m in Kentucky. High Knob stands 1,288 m to the southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Hensley-Pine Mountain Wildlife Management Area, a nature reserve 2.3 miles away. Pine Mountain Road passes 1.3 miles off.
The story
Halls Butt is a summit located in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. With an elevation of 3,097 feet (944 m), Halls Butt is the 11th highest summit in Kentucky, and 45,419th highest in the United States.
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Wikidata Q49034643, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 944 m
How to reach it
- 1.3 mi off the Pine Mountain Road
- 5.5 mi off the Country Music Highway, National
- 7.5 mi off the Coal Heritage Trail - VA
- 21.9 mi off the Trail of the Lonesome Pine / Daniel Boone Heritage Trail
Overlooks nearby
- Twin Cliffs Overlook · 12 mi
- Flag Rock Overlook · 13 mi
- Powell Mountain Overlook · 22 mi
- Tunnel Floor Observation Deck · 23 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Black Mountain: 3.5 mi
- High Rock: 5.6 mi
- Black Mountain: 9.3 mi
- The Doubles: 9.3 mi
- Buck Knob: 9.6 mi
- River Park: 5.6 mi
- Miner's Memorial Park: 8.8 mi
- Coal Miners Memorial Park: 8.9 mi
- Island Park: 9.0 mi
- Kingdom Come State Park: 9.6 mi
- Portal 31 Mine Tour: 7.3 mi
- Kentucky Coal Mining Museum: 8.9 mi
- Harry W. Meador Coal Museum: 11.6 mi
- June Tolliver House: 11.6 mi
- Southwest Virginia Museum: 11.8 mi
- Francis Gary Powers: 6.0 mi
- Highest Point in Kentucky: 9.3 mi
- Old Meade Homeplace: 12.1 mi
- Wise County: 13.1 mi
- Pound Gap: 13.2 mi
- Hensley-Pine Mountain Wildlife Management Area: 2.3 mi
- High Knob Recreation Area: 14.7 mi
- E. Lucy Braun State Park State Nature Preserve: 16.7 mi
- War memorial Honor Roll: 6.0 mi
- Woodbooger Statue: 12.9 mi
- Statue of Thomas Jefferson: 14.6 mi
- Picnic Grounds: 14.3 mi
- Betty J. Gilliam Sculpture Garden: 14.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.9 miles of Halls Butt. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Knob | SE 133° | 1,288 m | 14.0 mi |
| Black Mountain | SSW 208° | 1,259 m | 9.3 mi |
| The Doubles | SSW 202° | 1,247 m | 9.3 mi |
| Eagle Knob | SE 130° | 1,196 m | 14.9 mi |
| Camp Rock | SE 134° | 1,188 m | 15.1 mi |
| Little Mountain | SE 136° | 1,130 m | 14.5 mi |
| Potato Hill | SSW 202° | 1,123 m | 10.8 mi |
| MCD 173 | SW 232° | 1,096 m | 18.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:36 | 19:09 | 19:43 |
| June solstice | 06:13 | 20:16 | 20:55 |
| September equinox | 07:20 | 18:56 | 19:30 |
| December solstice | 07:42 | 16:38 | 17:19 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 38 | 45 | 54 | 62 | 68 | 73 | 71 | 66 | 55 | 44 | 37 |
| Precip in | 4.0 | 4.0 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 5.6 | 4.4 | 3.5 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Whitesburg 2SE, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358591148
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