Horse Butte
Horse Butte rises to 1,495 m in Oregon. Swan Lake Point stands 2,216 m to the west-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Cooks Mountain, a peak 1.8 miles away. Volcanic Legacy passes 28 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Oregon, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49037161, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,495 m
How to reach it
- 27.9 mi off the Volcanic Legacy, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Cooks Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Antone Butte: 3.3 mi
- Council Butte: 4.2 mi
- Watchdog Butte: 4.9 mi
- Eagle Butte: 5.1 mi
- Nimrod River County Park: 3.4 mi
- Klamath Falls-Lakeview Forest State Park: 13.2 mi
- Foster Field: 16.2 mi
- Bray Mill Campground: 19.9 mi
- Hagelstein County Park: 20.9 mi
- BURRO CRANE Model 30: 23.1 mi
- SLEEPER CAR NCL#2089 -- Lettered CN: 23.1 mi
- CREW CAR UP #906l0l: 23.1 mi
- Weyco #101 Locomotive: 23.2 mi
- LOGGING FLAT CAR WX: 23.2 mi
- Merritt Creek Trestle: 20.8 mi
- The M: 23.9 mi
- Blue Star Memorial Highway: 24.3 mi
- Oregon Tech Sign: 24.5 mi
- The H: 24.6 mi
- Swan Lake Rim: 13.6 mi
- Ya Whee Plateau Rim: 14.3 mi
- Algoma Incline: 20.7 mi
- Modoc Rim: 20.8 mi
- Gerber Rim: 20.9 mi
- Cold Spring: 21.7 mi
- Last Chance Spring: 23.6 mi
- Train Mountain Railroad Museum - Central Station: 23.0 mi
- Collier State Park Logging Museum: 24.4 mi
- Osprey: 24.2 mi
- Castle Quad: 24.9 mi
- Root Beer Falls: 23.5 mi
- Arboretum: 24.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.7 miles of Horse Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swan Lake Point | WSW 239° | 2,216 m | 13.7 mi |
| Yainax Butte | SE 146° | 2,201 m | 15.3 mi |
| Swan Lake Mountain | WSW 245° | 2,142 m | 14.4 mi |
| Saddle Mountain | W 270° | 2,090 m | 11.6 mi |
| Fuego Mountain | N 0° | 2,080 m | 9.0 mi |
| Edgewood Mountain | WSW 246° | 2,038 m | 15.5 mi |
| Calimus Butte | NW 324° | 2,012 m | 10.5 mi |
| Modoc Benchmark | WSW 258° | 2,000 m | 20.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:41 | 19:18 |
| June solstice | 05:29 | 20:05 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:28 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:33 | 15:51 | 16:36 |
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 | 32 | 35 | 39 | 44 | 52 | 59 | 67 | 66 | 58 | 47 | 37 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.5 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.4 | 1.8 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Klamath Falls Intl AP, 29 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1143739 — Horse Butte, Klamath County, Oregon.
OpenStreetMap element node/357310495
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