Twin Butte
Twin Butte rises to 1,168 m in Nebraska. Pants Butte stands 1,449 m to the southwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Strawstack Butte, a peak 2.2 miles away. Gold Rush Byway passes 15 miles off. 48 named places lie within 25 miles, 25 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34815235, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,168 m
How to reach it
- 14.6 mi off the Gold Rush Byway
- 17.4 mi off the Bridges to Buttes Byway
48 named places within 25 miles
- Strawstack Butte: 2.2 mi
- Wolf Butte: 2.9 mi
- Sugar Loaf Butte: 3.0 mi
- Pete Smith Hill: 3.1 mi
- Square Hill: 5.0 mi
- Cody-Yellowhand Battlefield Monument: 10.5 mi
- Warbonnet Battlefield: 11.5 mi
- Cody-Yellowhand Battlefield: 11.6 mi
- Warbonnet Battlefield Monument: 11.6 mi
- Crawford City Park: 17.9 mi
- Crawford Historical Museum: 18.1 mi
- Fort Robinson State Park Museum: 18.8 mi
- Fort Robinson History Center: 18.8 mi
- Trailside Museum of Natural History: 19.0 mi
- Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center: 9.2 mi
- Prehistoric Prairies Discovery Center: 18.1 mi
- Crawford School Bell Historical Marker: 18.5 mi
- Cowboy Artwork: 21.3 mi
- West Ash Creek Picnic Area: 24.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Twin Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pants Butte | SW 229° | 1,449 m | 20.9 mi |
| Pine Butte | SSW 211° | 1,366 m | 9.3 mi |
| Roundtop | SSW 208° | 1,346 m | 9.1 mi |
| Red Cloud Buttes | S 174° | 1,308 m | 17.6 mi |
| Crown Butte | SSE 153° | 1,288 m | 21.6 mi |
| Crow Butte | SSE 155° | 1,287 m | 20.6 mi |
| Giants Coffins Butte | S 172° | 1,285 m | 17.7 mi |
| Barrel Butte | SSE 146° | 1,273 m | 23.1 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, 10 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 835699 — Twin Butte, Dawes County, Nebraska.
OpenStreetMap element node/357765135
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