{{Short description|Landform in the Grand Canyon, Arizona}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Use American English|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Newberry Butte | image = Newberry Butte.jpg | image_caption = South aspect, (Vishnu Temple to right) | label = Newberry Butte | label_position = bottom | elevation_ft = 5105 | elevation_ref = <ref name="listsofjohn">{{cite web |url = https://listsofjohn.com/peak/75373 |title = Newberry Butte – 5,105' AZ |website = Lists of John |access-date = 2021-01-18 }}</ref> | prominence_ft = 645 | prominence_ref = <ref name="listsofjohn"/> | isolation_mi = 1.29 | isolation_ref = <ref name="listsofjohn"/> | parent_peak = Peak 5659<ref name="listsofjohn"/> | country = United States | state = Arizona | region = Coconino | region_type = County | part_type = Protected&nbsp;area | part = Grand Canyon National Park | range = Kaibab Plateau<br />Colorado Plateau | map = USA Arizona#USA | map_size = 230 | map_caption = Location in Arizona | coordinates = {{coord|36.0618884|N|111.9729534|W|type:mountain_region:US-AZ_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}} | coordinates_ref = <ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |id=8637 |name=Newberry Butte |accessdate=2021-01-18}}</ref> | topo = USGS ''Cape Royal'' | rock = Redwall Limestone | first_ascent = 1963 by Harvey Butchart<ref>Aaron Tomasi, Pernell Tomasi, ''Grand Canyon Summits Select An Obscure Compilation of Sixty-nine Remote Ascent Routes in the Grand Canyon National Park Backcountry'', 2001, {{ISBN|978-0971088009}}, p. 68.</ref> | easiest_route = {{YDS|4}} climbing<ref name="listsofjohn"/> }}

'''Newberry Butte''' is a {{convert|5,105|ft|meter|adj=mid|-elevation|abbr=off|sp=us}} summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, US.<ref name="gnis"/> It is situated 4.5&nbsp;miles north of the South Rim's Grandview Point, three miles southwest of Vishnu Temple, and 2.5&nbsp;miles south of Wotans Throne. Topographic relief is significant as it rises over {{convert|2,500|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} above the Colorado River and Granite Gorge in one mile. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Newberry Butte is located in a Cold semi-arid climate zone.<ref name=KGcc2007>{{Cite Köppen-Geiger cc 2007}}</ref>

==Etymology== thumb|left|80px|Newberry Newberry Butte is named for John Strong Newberry (1822–1892), the geologist for an 1858 expedition headed by Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives which explored the Colorado River up to the lower Grand Canyon.<ref>N.H. Darton, ''Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona'', 1917, p. 80.</ref> After returning, Newberry convinced fellow geologist John Wesley Powell that a boat run through the Grand Canyon to complete the survey would be worth the risk. Powell would later lead the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869 to explore the region. This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1906 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.<ref name="gnis"/>

==Geology== thumb|240px This butte is an erosional remnant composed of Mississippian Redwall Limestone, which overlays the Cambrian Tonto Group.<ref>N.H. Darton, ''Story of the Grand Canyon of Arizona'', 1917, pp. 14, 42, 59.</ref> Precipitation runoff from Newberry Butte drains southwest to the Colorado River via Vishnu Creek.

==Gallery== <div style="max-width: 500px;"> <gallery mode=slideshow> File:Newberry butte.jpg|Newberry Butte (Vishnu Temple to right) File:Newberry Butte from Moran Point.jpg|Newberry Butte (centered in bullseye) seen from Moran Point File:Newberry Butte east aspect.jpg|East aspect </gallery> </div>

==See also== * Geology of the Grand Canyon area * Solomon Temple

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== External links == {{stack|{{commons category|Newberry Butte}}}} * Weather forecast: [https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=36.0623&lon=-111.9724#.YAZZmjmSmUk National Weather Service] * [https://archive.library.nau.edu/digital/collection/cpa/id/85660/rec/3 Newberry Butte photo] by Harvey Butchart {{Geology of the Grand Canyon area||state=collapsed}}

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