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Welcome to Castle Butte ...

Castle Butte is located within the Navajo Nation.

Castle Butte is located in Navajo County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Castle Butte, you might get a feel for it by knowing that the earliest mention that we've found (so far) was on a map dated 1956.

Castle Butte is 5,800 feet [1,768 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Castle Butte is about 1 mile [or ~1¾ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Castle Butte lies in the Mountain Standard Time Zone (MST) and does not observe daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Castle Butte, you will leave Mountain Standard Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT). In addition, you will be moving from an area that does not observe daylight saving time to one that does.

Area Code for Castle Butte: 928

Communities near Castle Butte ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Castle Butte.

  • Dilkon
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dilkon have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dilkon
    • Dilkon is located in Navajo County
  • Tees Toh
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tees Toh
    • Tees Toh is located in Navajo County
  • Seba Dalkai
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seba Dalkai
    • Seba Dalkai is located in Navajo County
  • Indian Wells
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Brigham City ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brigham City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brigham City
    • Brigham City is located in Navajo County
  • Joseph City
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Sunset City ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunset City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset City
    • Sunset City is located in Navajo County
  • Sunset ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sunset. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
    • Sunset is located in Navajo County
  • Sun Valley
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Winslow
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Castle Butte. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Castle Butte.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Castle Butte. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Castle Butte.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Castle Butte. See our Newspapers Page for Castle Butte.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Castle Butte ...

Looking for more information about Castle Butte? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Castle Butte, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Castle Butte.

Adding Castle Butte to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Castle Butte in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Castle Butte was on a map titled Road Map for Arizona (from Shell Oil, 1956).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Castle Butte.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Arizona's counties, including Navajo, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Castle Butte - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.