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The North and South Menan Buttes in southeastern Idaho are two of the world's largest volcanic tuff cones. The two cones, with four smaller associated cones, align along a north-northwest line and comprise the Menan Complex .
Big Southern Butte is the largest and youngest (300,000 years old) of three rhyolitic domes formed over a million years near the center of the Eastern Snake River Plain in the U.S. state of Idaho. [5]
Butte County is a rural county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census , the population was 2,574, [ 1 ] making it the third-least populous county in Idaho. Its county seat and largest city is Arco . [ 2 ]
Menan Buttes: 1980: Menan: Jefferson, Madison: federal (Bureau of Land Management) Contains outstanding examples of glass tuff cones, which are found in only a few places in the world. Niagara Springs: 1980
It stretches about 400 miles (640 km) westward from northwest of the state of Wyoming to the Idaho-Oregon border. The plain is a wide, flat bow-shaped depression and covers about a quarter of Idaho. Three major volcanic buttes dot the plain east of Arco, the largest being Big Southern Butte.
Buttes rising from the Snake River Plain. 2,758: 2,233 sq mi (5,783 km 2) Camas County: 025: ... Idaho Territory was founded under Lincoln's administration. 5,450:
Recently, a petition was filed to the U.S. Board on Geographic Names to change the name of the Sutter Buttes. Could ‘world’s smallest mountain range’ get new name? What Sutter Buttes could ...
East Butte and line parent Big Southern Butte were major landmarks for early explorers and pioneers. [4] The remote mountain is situated over 40 miles east of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, 32 miles west of the community of Idaho Falls, and can be seen from Highway 20 midway between Idaho Falls and Arco at milepost 274.