Turtle Butte

Turtle Butte is a summit in Tripp County, South Dakota, in the United States.[1] With an elevation of 2,343 feet (714 m), Turtle Butte is the 456th highest summit in the state of South Dakota.[2]

Turtle Butte derives its name from a Native American legend in which a warrior sat upon a rock only to realize the rock was in fact a giant turtle.[3]

Turtle Butte Formation is a named geological formation on the western side of the summit.[4]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Turtle Butte
  2. ↑ "Turtle Butte". Peakery.com. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  3. ↑ Federal Writers' Project (1940). South Dakota place-names, v.3. University of South Dakota. p. 4.
  4. ↑ Luttrell, Gwendolyn Lewise Werth (1981). Lexicon of Geologic Names of the United States for 1968-1975. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 318.


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