Yellow Butte
Yellow Butte rises to 1,453 m in California. Lyons Peak stands 2,398 m to the south-southeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Bonita Butte, a peak 2.0 miles away. Volcanic Legacy passes 21 miles off.
The story
Mountain in Siskiyou County, California, United States of America.
Wikidata Q49091224, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,453 m
How to reach it
- 21.3 mi off the Volcanic Legacy, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Bonita Butte: 2.0 mi
- Whitney Butte: 2.7 mi
- Sheep Camp Butte: 2.9 mi
- Mount Dome: 4.4 mi
- Bat Butte: 4.6 mi
- Dragons Mouth: 3.6 mi
- Balcony Bridge: 4.8 mi
- Boulevard Bridge: 4.9 mi
- Bearpaw Bridge: 5.0 mi
- Heppe Bridge: 6.4 mi
- Fleener Chimneys: 3.6 mi
- Black Crater: 4.4 mi
- Thomas-Wright Battlefield: 5.2 mi
- Gillems Camp: 6.2 mi
- Canby Cross: 6.4 mi
- Civilian Conservation Corps commemorative bell: 13.5 mi
- Dave Menke Environmental Education Center dedication: 13.5 mi
- Tule Lake: 16.1 mi
- 1873 Two Warm Springs Indians: 16.3 mi
- Canby's Cross: 16.3 mi
- Tulelake-Butte Valley Fairgrounds: 15.5 mi
- Otis Roper Park: 15.9 mi
- Good Duck Park: 18.4 mi
- Malin Community Park: 21.2 mi
- Gillem Bluff: 4.2 mi
- Padgetts Bluff: 12.5 mi
- Cedar Point: 18.3 mi
- Lava Beds National Monument: 7.5 mi
- Butte Valley Wildlife Area: 24.1 mi
- Doorknob Snowmobile park: 7.1 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 14.3 miles of Yellow Butte. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lyons Peak | SSE 151° | 2,398 m | 14.1 mi |
| Mount Hoffman | SSE 157° | 2,397 m | 11.1 mi |
| Red Shale Butte | SSE 155° | 2,381 m | 13.7 mi |
| Glass Mountain | SSE 148° | 2,316 m | 12.8 mi |
| Medicine Mountain | S 174° | 2,295 m | 13.5 mi |
| Badger Peak | S 178° | 2,236 m | 11.1 mi |
| Little Mount Hoffman | S 185° | 2,197 m | 12.5 mi |
| Grouse Hill | S 178° | 2,142 m | 10.0 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:11 | 18:42 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:03 | 20:46 |
| September equinox | 06:55 | 18:29 | 19:05 |
| December solstice | 07:31 | 15:55 | 16:40 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 35 | 40 | 44 | 52 | 60 | 69 | 68 | 62 | 51 | 39 | 32 |
| Precip in | 1.6 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.8 | 1.5 | 1.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Lava Beds NAT MON, 8 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/358807736
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