Hancock Butte (Arizona)

Hancock Butte is a 7,683-foot-elevation (2,342 meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, USA.[2] It is situated one mile south of the Point Imperial viewpoint on the canyon's North Rim, where it towers 3,700 feet (1,130 meters) above Nankoweap Canyon. Its nearest higher neighbor is Mount Hayden, one mile to the north-northeast, and Brady Peak is 1.5 mile to the southeast. Hancock Butte is named after William A. Hancock (1831–1902), a pioneer and politician of the Arizona Territory known for performing the survey work required to create the town of Phoenix and erecting the first building there in 1870.[2] This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1932 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[2] According to the Köppen climate classification system, Hancock Butte is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone.[3]

Hancock Butte
North aspect centered, from Point Imperial
Highest point
Elevation7,683 ft (2,342 m)[1]
Prominence463 ft (141 m)[1]
Parent peakMount Hayden (8,362 ft)[1]
Isolation0.81 mi (1.30 km)[1]
Coordinates36°15′42″N 111°58′29″W[2]
Geography
Hancock Butte
Location in Arizona
Hancock Butte
Hancock Butte (the United States)
LocationGrand Canyon National Park
Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent rangeKaibab Plateau
Colorado Plateau
Topo mapUSGS Point Imperial
Geology
Age of rockPermian
Climbing
First ascentAlan Doty, October 1976
Easiest routeclass 5.1 climbing[1]

Geology

Hancock Butte is a butte composed of the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group overlaying the cliff-forming Mississippian Redwall Limestone.[4] Precipitation runoff from this feature drains east into the Colorado River via Nankoweap Creek.

See also

References

  1. "Hancock Butte - 7,683' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  2. "Hancock Butte". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  3. Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.
  4. William Kenneth Hamblin, Anatomy of the Grand Canyon: Panoramas of the Canyon's Geology, 2008, Grand Canyon Association Publisher, ISBN 9781934656013.
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