Black Butte (Siskiyou County, California)

Infobox Mountain
Name = Black Butte
Photo = Black Butte 8-4-2007.jpg
Caption= Black Butte from I-5 on 8-4-2007
Elevation = convert|6359|ft|m|0|abbr=onFact|date=August 2008
Location = California, USA
Range = Cascades
Prominence = convert|1960|ft|m|0|abbr=onFact|date=August 2008
Coordinates =coord|41.37|-122.35|type:mountain_region:US|display=inlinecite web | title = Shasta - Synonyms and Subfeatures | work = Global Volcanism Program | publisher = Smithsonian Institution | url = http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1203-01-&volpage=synsub | accessdate = 2008-08-14]
Topographic
USGS City of Mount Shasta
Type = Lava dome
Age = 9,000–10,000 yrsFact|date=August 2008
Volcanic_Arc/Belt=Cascade Volcanic Arc
Easiest route = trail [cite book | last = Selters | first = Andy | coauthors = Michael Zanger | title = Mt. Shasta Book: Guide to Hiking, Climbing, Skiing & Exploring the Mtn & Surrounding Area (3rd Edition) | publisher = Wilderness Press | date = May 2006 | location = | pages = p. 42 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=_u1rdIRSBtcC&pg=PA42&lpg=PA42&dq=black+butte+shasta&source=web&ots=AHxdqlGmli&sig=X-AEyxjDpdumxdJPML7imYbPW4k&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result
isbn = 978-0899974040] Black Butte is a cluster of overlapping dacite lava domescite paper | author = Miller, C. Dan | title = Potential Hazards from Future Eruptions in the Vicinity of Mount Shasta Volcano, Northern California: USGS Bulletin 1503 | publisher = United States Geological Survey | date = 1980 | url = http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/b/b1503 | accessdate = 2008-08-14] , a parasitic satellite cone of Mount Shasta.cite book | last = Wood | first = Charles A. | coauthors= Jürgen Kienle, eds. | title = Volcanoes of North America | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 1990 | isbn = 0-521-43811-X | pages = p.214-216] It is located directly adjacent to Interstate 5 at milepost 742 between the city of Mount Shasta and Weed, California. The highway crosses a convert|3917|ft|m|0|abbr=on pass, Black Butte Summit, at the western base of the lava domes. The lava domes were extruded at the foot of the cone of Shastina following the period of its major eruptions about 9,000–10,000 years ago.Fact|date=August 2008

A United States Forest Service fire lookout tower was built on the summit in the 1930s, but destroyed during the Columbus Day Storm of 1962. A new lookout was built in 1963 and operated until 1973. The building was moved by helicopter to a new location in 1975 and only the concrete foundation remains today. A convert|2.5|mi|km|1|adj=on long trail leads to the summit from a trailhead accessible by dirt roads off the Everitt Memorial Highway. The summit boasts an outstanding view of the southwest side of Shasta and Shastina, and on clear days Mount McLoughlin is easily visible convert|70|mi|km|0 to the north in Oregon. [cite web | title = Shasta-Trinity National Forest: Black Butte Trail | url= http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/shastatrinity/documents/st-main/maps/rogs/mt-shasta/blk-bute.pdf | accessdate = 2007-02-27 | format = PDF | publisher = United States Forest Service ]

ee also

*Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway

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