Kibbey Butte

Kibbey Butte is a 7,801-foot-elevation (2,378-meter) summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County of northern Arizona, US.[2] It is situated two miles south of the Point Imperial viewpoint on the canyon's North Rim, where it towers over 3,000 feet (910 meters) above Nankoweap Canyon. Its nearest higher neighbor is Brady Peak one mile to the southeast, Hancock Butte is one mile to the north-northeast, and Alsap Butte is two miles to the east. The summit of this butte is composed of dark reddish Permian Hermit Shale overlaying the Pennsylvanian-Permian Supai Group, in turn overlaying the cliff-forming Mississippian Redwall Limestone.[4] According to the Köppen climate classification system, Kibbey Butte is located in a cold semi-arid climate zone.[5] Precipitation runoff from this feature drains east into the Colorado River via Nankoweap Creek. Cross-country access to Kibbey Butte starts at the parking area for Greenland Lake. The first ascent of the summit was made by Harvey Butchart and Allyn Cureton on May 31, 1961.

Kibbey Butte
North aspect centered, from Point Imperial
Highest point
Elevation7,801 ft (2,378 m)[1]
Prominence181 ft (55 m)[1]
Parent peakBrady Peak (8,121 ft)[1]
Isolation0.92 mi (1.48 km)[1]
Coordinates36°14′56″N 111°58′42″W[2]
Naming
EtymologyJoseph Henry Kibbey
Geography
Kibbey Butte is located in Arizona
Kibbey Butte
Kibbey Butte
Location in Arizona
Kibbey Butte is located in the United States
Kibbey Butte
Kibbey Butte
Kibbey Butte (the United States)
LocationGrand Canyon National Park
Coconino County, Arizona, US
Parent rangeKaibab Plateau
Colorado Plateau
Topo mapUSGS Walhalla Plateau
Geology
Age of rockPermian
Type of rockshale, sandstone
Climbing
First ascentMay 31, 1961
Harvey Butchart, Allyn Cureton[3]
Easiest routeclass 3 scrambling

Etymology

This geographical feature was named by Will C. Barnes after Joseph Henry Kibbey (1853–1924), an American attorney who served as Associate Justice of the Arizona Territorial Supreme Court from 1889 to 1893, and President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Kibbey as the Governor of Arizona Territory, serving from 1905 to 1909.[2][6] He was an authority on Arizona water laws.[7] This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1932 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.[2]

Joseph H. Kibbey (c. 1913)

See also

References
  1. "Kibbey Butte – 7,683' AZ". Lists of John. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  2. "Kibbey Butte". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-03-14.
  3. 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 9780971088009, page 44.
  4. William Kenneth Hamblin, Anatomy of the Grand Canyon: Panoramas of the Canyon's Geology, 2008, Grand Canyon Association Publisher, ISBN 9781934656013.
  5. 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.
  6. Gregory McNamee, Grand Canyon Place Names, 1997, Mountaineers Publisher, ISBN 9780898865332, page 71.
  7. Byrd H. Granger, Grand Canyon Place Names, 1960, University of Arizona Press Tucson, page 16.
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