Valentine Springs
Valentine Springs is a spring in Montana, at a recorded elevation of 944 m. Coal Hill stands 1,056 m to the west, 19 miles off. Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway passes 24 miles off. 79 named places lie within 25 miles, 10 of them named summits.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 944 m
How to reach it
- 23.6 mi off the Missouri Breaks Back Country Byway
79 named places within 25 miles
- BLM: 1.3 mi
- BLM: 1.7 mi
- BLM: 1.8 mi
- State Trust: 2.2 mi
- BLM: 2.7 mi
- Haystack Butte: 5.6 mi
- Dovetail Butte: 6.5 mi
- Dog Butte: 6.7 mi
- Button Butte: 11.9 mi
- Smoky Johnson Hill: 16.7 mi
- Valentine Springs: 0.0 mi
- Valentine Springs: 0.1 mi
- Brown Spring: 2.1 mi
- Davis Spring: 8.1 mi
- Kettle Spring: 18.2 mi
- Crooked Creek Recreation Area: 21.4 mi
- Upper Missouri National Wild and Scenic River: 23.8 mi
- George Ore Memorial Park: 24.0 mi
- Jim Bartlett Field: 24.3 mi
- Rocky Point: 17.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Valentine Springs. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coal Hill | W 275° | 1,056 m | 18.9 mi |
| Haystack Butte | W 279° | 1,027 m | 5.6 mi |
| Three Buttes | SW 227° | 1,023 m | 22.0 mi |
| Dovetail Butte | ENE 57° | 986 m | 6.5 mi |
| Indian Butte | NW 310° | 928 m | 22.6 mi |
| Tin Can Hill | SE 124° | 927 m | 19.0 mi |
| Button Butte | NNW 332° | 903 m | 11.9 mi |
| Dog Butte | SSE 158° | 890 m | 6.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:17 | 18:46 | 19:26 |
| June solstice | 05:18 | 20:27 | 21:15 |
| September equinox | 07:01 | 18:33 | 19:13 |
| December solstice | 07:59 | 15:34 | 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 | 20 | 23 | 33 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 70 | 69 | 58 | 44 | 32 | 22 |
| Precip in | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.3 | 2.9 | 2.6 | 1.6 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Valentine, 5 mi away.
- Yellow Sweetclover1 obs
- Slimflower Scurfpea1 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/3463235157
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