Name: Deer Butte

 

County: Sweetwater

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude: 1090232W

Latitude: 415000N

 

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Elevation: 7877/2401

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Part of the Leucite Hills. "This is the most western one of the principal flows, but the Badgers Teeth, the Boars Tusk and Pilot Butte lie still farther in this direction."

Source: Kemp and Knight

 

Other Names: Cross Mesa, Gross Mesa, Spring Butte

 

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History:

Named Cross Mesa by Kemp and Knight. "We name this, which is one of the most striking of the group, after Dr. Whitman Cross of the United States Geological Survey, to whose studies we so largely owe our knowledge of the detailed petrography of these lavas. 

Source: Kemp and Knight 

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Deer Butte

 

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