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Cook Spring

Cook Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Cook Spring is a spring in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 1,095 m. Home Creek Butte stands 1,344 m to the east-southeast, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is Cook Mountain, a peak 1.0 miles away. 80 named places lie within 25 miles, 24 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
1095 m

How to reach it

Coordinates45.64717, -106.17380

80 named places within 25 miles

Peaks: 24
  • Cook Mountain: 1.0 mi
  • Red Top Hill: 8.5 mi
  • Red Butte: 10.1 mi
  • Liscom Butte: 11.7 mi
  • Home Creek Butte: 11.9 mi
Nature reserves: 22
Parks: 3
  • King Mountain Hiking and Riding Area: 15.8 mi
  • Kenneth Beartusk Memorial Powwow Grounds: 21.9 mi
  • Tongue River Breaks Hiding and Riding Area: 22.9 mi
Museums: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cook Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Home Creek ButteESE 105°1,344 m11.9 mi
Badger PeakW 269°1,344 m18.1 mi
Fisher ButteWSW 249°1,340 m17.6 mi
Poker Jim ButteSSW 203°1,326 m24.2 mi
Liscom ButteNE 55°1,324 m11.7 mi
Charlie Black ButteW 277°1,302 m18.4 mi
Threemile ButtesSE 133°1,297 m17.2 mi
Cook MountainSE 145°1,282 m1.0 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0918:3819:17
June solstice05:1620:1220:58
September equinox06:5218:2519:04
December solstice07:4315:3416:24

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232636465564727160473424
Precip in0.60.60.91.73.12.61.40.91.21.40.50.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Brandenberg, 12 mi away.

  • Great Plains yucca1 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/5366796412

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