Sugar Loaf Butte
Sugar Loaf Butte rises to 1,128 m in Nebraska. Pants Butte stands 1,449 m to the southwest, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Strawstack Butte, a peak 1.5 miles away. Bridges to Buttes Byway passes 15 miles off. 52 named places lie within 25 miles, 27 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34932665, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,128 m
How to reach it
- 14.7 mi off the Bridges to Buttes Byway
- 15.7 mi off the Gold Rush Byway
52 named places within 25 miles
- Strawstack Butte: 1.5 mi
- Square Hill: 2.0 mi
- Mike Kern Hills: 2.6 mi
- Pete Smith Hill: 2.7 mi
- Twin Butte: 3.0 mi
- Cody-Yellowhand Battlefield Monument: 10.7 mi
- Cody-Yellowhand Battlefield: 11.7 mi
- Warbonnet Battlefield: 11.7 mi
- Warbonnet Battlefield Monument: 11.8 mi
- Crawford City Park: 15.0 mi
- Crawford Historical Museum: 15.2 mi
- Fort Robinson State Park Museum: 15.8 mi
- Fort Robinson History Center: 15.8 mi
- Trailside Museum of Natural History: 16.0 mi
- Sioux County Museum: 24.2 mi
- Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center: 6.9 mi
- Prehistoric Prairies Discovery Center: 15.1 mi
- Crawford School Bell Historical Marker: 15.6 mi
- West Ash Creek Picnic Area: 22.3 mi
- Cowboy Artwork: 23.8 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sugar Loaf Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pants Butte | SW 236° | 1,449 m | 19.0 mi |
| First Woman Mound | SSE 150° | 1,420 m | 24.3 mi |
| Pine Butte | SW 224° | 1,366 m | 6.9 mi |
| Roundtop | SW 220° | 1,346 m | 6.6 mi |
| Red Cloud Buttes | S 173° | 1,308 m | 14.6 mi |
| Crown Butte | SSE 148° | 1,288 m | 19.0 mi |
| Crow Butte | SSE 151° | 1,287 m | 17.9 mi |
| Giants Coffins Butte | S 171° | 1,285 m | 14.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:58 | 18:29 | 19:06 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:54 | 20:37 |
| September equinox | 06:42 | 18:16 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:23 | 15:37 | 16:23 |
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 | 24 | 27 | 38 | 46 | 56 | 66 | 74 | 72 | 62 | 48 | 34 | 24 |
| Precip in | 0.5 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 2.0 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 2.2 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.4 | 0.5 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Ardmore 1 NW, 12 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 835686 — Sugar Loaf Butte, Sioux County, Nebraska.
OpenStreetMap element node/357765123
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