Elephant Butte
Elephant Butte is a summit that is now in the Elephant Butte Reservoir and within the Elephant Butte Lake State Park in Sierra County, New Mexico. It has an elevation of 4,639 feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Elephant Butte Dam.
Elephant Butte Dam
Dam
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Elephant Butte Dam or Elephant Butte Dike, originally Engle Dam, is a concrete gravity dam on the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, in the United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elephant Butte and Truth or Consequences.
Elephant Butte
Village
Photo: AllenS, Public domain.
Elephant Butte is a city in Sierra County, New Mexico, United States, located near Elephant Butte Reservoir and Elephant Butte Lake State Park. The population was 1,447 at the time of the 2020 census.
Truth or Consequences
Truth or Consequences, locally called T or C and formerly known as Hot Springs, is a town in New Mexico in the United States of America. It gets its curious name from a 1950s-vintage television show that offered to film an episode in some little town far from Hollywood, if that town would change its name to match the show's.
Elephant Butte
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 4,639 feet
- Description: geographic feature in New Mexico, United States
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Sierra, New Mexico, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.15674° or 33° 9′ 24″ northLongitude
-107.18447° or 107° 11′ 4″ westElevation
4,639 feet (1,414 metres)Open location code
855J5R48+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 357573240OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
“Elephant Butte” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Elephant Butte (bukid sa Estados Unidos, New Mexico, Sierra County, lat 33,16, long -107,18)”
- Cebuano: “Elephant Butte”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dam Site Marina and Elephant Butte Dam Historical Marker.
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