Wolf Butte
Wolf Butte rises to 1,239 m in Nebraska. Pants Butte stands 1,449 m to the southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Twin Butte, a peak 2.9 miles away. Gold Rush Byway passes 12 miles off. 55 named places lie within 25 miles, 29 of them named summits.
The story
Mountain in United States of America.
Wikidata Q34821624, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,239 m
How to reach it
- 11.9 mi off the Gold Rush Byway
- 17.5 mi off the Bridges to Buttes Byway
55 named places within 25 miles
- Twin Butte: 2.9 mi
- Pete Smith Hill: 3.7 mi
- Strawstack Butte: 3.9 mi
- Sugar Loaf Butte: 5.3 mi
- Square Hill: 7.1 mi
- Cody-Yellowhand Battlefield Monument: 13.1 mi
- Warbonnet Battlefield: 14.1 mi
- Warbonnet Battlefield Monument: 14.1 mi
- Cody-Yellowhand Battlefield: 14.1 mi
- Crawford City Park: 19.2 mi
- Crawford Historical Museum: 19.4 mi
- Fort Robinson State Park Museum: 20.4 mi
- Fort Robinson History Center: 20.5 mi
- Trailside Museum of Natural History: 20.6 mi
- Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center: 12.0 mi
- Prehistoric Prairies Discovery Center: 19.3 mi
- Cowboy Artwork: 18.5 mi
- Crawford School Bell Historical Marker: 19.8 mi
- Horseshoe Bend: 24.2 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Wolf Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pants Butte | SW 230° | 1,449 m | 23.8 mi |
| Pine Butte | SW 216° | 1,366 m | 12.0 mi |
| Roundtop | SW 214° | 1,346 m | 11.7 mi |
| Flagpole Mountain | N 352° | 1,315 m | 23.8 mi |
| Red Cloud Buttes | S 181° | 1,308 m | 19.2 mi |
| Crown Butte | SSE 160° | 1,288 m | 22.3 mi |
| Crow Butte | SSE 163° | 1,287 m | 21.4 mi |
| Giants Coffins Butte | S 180° | 1,285 m | 19.3 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, 11 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 835717 — Wolf Butte, Dawes County, Nebraska.
OpenStreetMap element node/357765153
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