Turkey Head Butte
Turkey Head Butte rises to 1,202 m in Idaho. Davis Mountain stands 2,070 m to the northwest, 16 miles off. The nearest named place is Flat Top Butte, a peak 7.7 miles away. Sawtooth Scenic Byway passes 14 miles off. 59 named places lie within 25 miles, 28 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in Idaho, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49085299, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,202 m
How to reach it
- 14.0 mi off the Sawtooth Scenic Byway
- 16.0 mi off the Thousand Springs Scenic Byway
- 27.6 mi off the Peaks to Craters Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- viewpoint 1 · 16 mi
- viewpoint 2 · 16 mi
- point 3 · 16 mi
- point 6 · 17 mi
59 named places within 25 miles
- Flat Top Butte: 7.7 mi
- McKinney Butte: 7.8 mi
- Twin Oaks: 8.3 mi
- Gooding Butte: 10.7 mi
- Crows Nest: 11.2 mi
- Little Drops Recreation Area: 13.8 mi
- Mary L Gooding Memorial Park: 15.6 mi
- Malad Gorge State Park: 16.2 mi
- Billingsley Creek Wildlife Management Area: 18.9 mi
- McGinnis Park: 19.4 mi
- Shoshone Bird Museum of Natural History: 13.2 mi
- Richard Arthur Olsen Museum of Natural History: 13.2 mi
- Hagerman National monument and thousand springs state park visitor center: 19.1 mi
- Jerome County Historical Museum: 24.1 mi
- Lincoln County Fairgrounds: 16.1 mi
- Jerome County Fairgrounds: 23.9 mi
- Shoshone Ice Caves: 23.9 mi
- Historic Oregon Trail 1840-1860: 24.6 mi
- Clay Bank Spring: 22.8 mi
- Martin Spring: 24.0 mi
- Wurst Spring: 24.5 mi
- Devil's washbowl waterfall: 15.9 mi
- Salmon Falls: 23.0 mi
- Windmill Bluff: 18.1 mi
- Big Bluff: 18.8 mi
- Bliss Rest Area, I-84 Westbound: 21.7 mi
- Bliss Rest Area, I-84 Eastbound: 21.7 mi
- Ritter Island: 23.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Turkey Head Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Davis Mountain | NW 312° | 2,070 m | 16.3 mi |
| The Knob | WNW 304° | 1,992 m | 20.2 mi |
| Twin Peaks | NW 320° | 1,969 m | 14.5 mi |
| Fir Grove Mountain | NNW 330° | 1,889 m | 11.5 mi |
| Moonstone Mountain | NNE 26° | 1,869 m | 23.8 mi |
| Square Mountain | NNE 20° | 1,849 m | 24.4 mi |
| Horse Mountain | NE 37° | 1,756 m | 17.1 mi |
| Johnson Hill | N 2° | 1,730 m | 13.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:43 | 19:14 | 19:51 |
| June solstice | 06:00 | 20:39 | 21:22 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:00 | 19:38 |
| December solstice | 08:08 | 16:21 | 17:07 |
Local time (America/Boise).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 35 | 44 | 51 | 60 | 69 | 78 | 76 | 66 | 53 | 40 | 31 |
| Precip in | 1.6 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Shoshone 1 WNW, 15 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 398267 — Turkey Head Butte, Gooding County, Idaho.
OpenStreetMap element node/358663930
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