Station Spring
Station Spring is a spring in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 1,238 m. Horn Mountain stands 1,435 m to the southwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Spang Spring, a spring 2.5 miles away. 100 named places lie within 25 miles, 22 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1238 m
How to reach it
100 named places within 25 miles
- Spang Spring: 2.5 mi
- Elliot Spring: 2.8 mi
- Rondeau Spring: 4.5 mi
- B Heart Spring: 4.6 mi
- White Horse Spring: 4.6 mi
- BLM: 8.9 mi
- BLM: 14.4 mi
- State Trust: 15.9 mi
- BLM: 16.2 mi
- BLM: 18.4 mi
- Fisher Butte: 2.8 mi
- Badger Peak: 8.4 mi
- Cook Creek Butte: 10.7 mi
- Charlie Black Butte: 11.0 mi
- Browns Mountain: 11.6 mi
- Kenneth Beartusk Memorial Powwow Grounds: 4.8 mi
- Tongue River Breaks Hiding and Riding Area: 12.7 mi
- King Mountain Hiking and Riding Area: 14.7 mi
- Buffalo Jump: 8.1 mi
- Cheyenne Indian Museum: 14.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Station Spring. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horn Mountain | SW 228° | 1,435 m | 22.1 mi |
| Sarpy Mountains | WNW 292° | 1,380 m | 22.8 mi |
| Busby Butte | W 265° | 1,379 m | 16.0 mi |
| Cook Creek Butte | SW 235° | 1,368 m | 10.7 mi |
| Chalky Point | NW 309° | 1,356 m | 22.4 mi |
| Badger Peak | N 360° | 1,344 m | 8.4 mi |
| Fisher Butte | NE 37° | 1,340 m | 2.8 mi |
| Poker Jim Butte | SSE 147° | 1,326 m | 16.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:10 | 18:40 | 19:19 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 20:14 | 20:59 |
| September equinox | 06:54 | 18:27 | 19:06 |
| December solstice | 07:44 | 15:36 | 16:26 |
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 | 21 | 24 | 35 | 44 | 53 | 63 | 71 | 69 | 59 | 45 | 33 | 23 |
| Precip in | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.9 | 1.7 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Busby, 20 mi away.
Months at or above the year’s average flow: May–Jul — fullest in Jun, leanest in Jan.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean cfs | 160 | 173 | 222 | 282 | 699 | 1,380 | 584 | 380 | 302 | 231 | 213 | 169 |
USGS monthly mean discharge at gauge Tongue R at Birney Day School Br nr Birney MT, 9 mi away — the nearest gauge, which can sit on a different stream.
- dotted gayfeather1 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.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element node/5323071705
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