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Fletcher Spring

Fletcher Spring, seen from above at true elevation

Fletcher Spring is a spring in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 1,182 m. Cook Creek Butte stands 1,368 m to the west-northwest, 21 miles off. The nearest named place is Green Creek Spring, a spring 2.5 miles away. 136 named places lie within 25 miles, 36 of them named summits.

What the record says

Elevation
1182 m

How to reach it

Coordinates45.35716, -106.31075

136 named places within 25 miles

Nature reserves: 40
Peaks: 36
  • Poker Jim Butte: 3.5 mi
  • Horse Creek Buttes: 6.2 mi
  • Stag Rock Mountain: 6.6 mi
  • Wild Hog Butte: 6.7 mi
  • Browns Mountain: 6.9 mi
Parks: 3
  • Tongue River Breaks Hiding and Riding Area: 5.2 mi
  • King Mountain Hiking and Riding Area: 5.3 mi
  • Kenneth Beartusk Memorial Powwow Grounds: 21.0 mi
Historic sites: 1
Museums: 1
Cliffs: 1
Attractions: 1
  • Diamond Butte Lookout: 19.8 mi

Summits around it

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

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Cook Creek ButteWNW 285°1,368 m20.9 mi
Badger PeakNNW 330°1,344 m22.8 mi
Home Creek ButteNE 47°1,344 m24.8 mi
Fisher ButteNW 324°1,340 m16.7 mi
Poker Jim ButteSW 230°1,326 m3.5 mi
Gardner ButteE 96°1,306 m21.6 mi
Diamond ButteESE 112°1,301 m19.8 mi
Threemile ButtesENE 67°1,297 m20.9 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0918:3919:18
June solstice05:1820:1220:58
September equinox06:5318:2619:05
December solstice07:4315:3616:26

Local time (America/Denver).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F232535435262706959453324
Precip in0.50.70.91.92.92.71.71.11.11.40.60.5

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Sonnette 7 SW, 19 mi away.

Months at or above the year’s average flow: May–Jul — fullest in Jun, leanest in Jan.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean cfs1601732222826991,380584380302231213169

USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Tongue R at Birney Day School Br nr Birney MT, 8 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element node/5316451977

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