Chaistla Butte

{{Short description|Landform in Navajo County, Arizona, US}}

{{Infobox mountain

|name = Chaistla Butte

|other_name =

|photo = Chaistla Butte (Navajo Volcanic Field, northeastern Arizona, USA).jpg

|photo_caption = West aspect

|elevation_ft = 6098

|elevation_ref = {{cite web|url=https://listsofjohn.com/peak/73567|title=Chaistla Butte - 6,098' AZ|website=listsofjohn.com|accessdate=2020-12-03}}

|prominence_ft = 548

|prominence_ref =

|isolation_mi = 2.36

|isolation_ref =

|parent_peak = Segeke Butte (6,721 ft)

|map = Arizona#USA

|map_caption = Location in Arizona

|map_size = 230

|label_position = bottom

|location = Navajo Reservation
Navajo County, Arizona, U.S.

|range = Colorado Plateau{{cite web|url=https://peakvisor.com/peak/chaistla-butte.html|website=peakvisor.com|title=Chaistla Butte |accessdate=2020-12-04}}

|coordinates = {{coord|36.7808330|N|110.2073524|W|type:mountain_region:US-AZ_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=2727|name=Chaistla Butte|accessdate=2020-12-03}}

|topo = USGS Agathla Peak

|rock = Volcanic breccia

|age = Oligocene

|first_ascent =

|easiest_route = {{YDS|5.x}} climbing

}}

Chaistla Butte is a {{convert|6,098|ft|m|adj=on}} elevation summit located south of Monument Valley, in Navajo County of northeast Arizona. It is situated {{convert|4.5|mi}} northeast of the community of Kayenta, on Navajo Nation land, and can be seen from Highway 163. It is one of the eroded volcanic plugs, or diatremes, of the Navajo Volcanic Field, which is a volcanic field that includes intrusions and flows of minette and other unusual igneous rocks which formed around 30 million years ago during the Oligocene.Steven C. Semken, The Navajo Volcanic Field, in Volcanology in New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 18, p. 79, 2001. {{ISSN|1524-4156}} Chaistla Butte rises {{convert|400|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} above the Little Capitan Valley, and the 1,000 by 700-foot base pokes up from the Chinle Formation.Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, Volume XXX, 1920, page 270. Its neighbors include Agathla Peak and Owl Rock, {{convert|3|mi|km|spell=in}} to the north-northwest. Precipitation runoff from this feature drains into the Laguña Creek drainage basin. The chaistla name, which means "beaver pocket" or "beaver corner" in the Navajo language, was officially adopted in 1915 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.Will C. Barnes, Arizona Place Names, 1988, University of Arizona Press, page 87. Navajo teachings have its name meaning "to support the sky's underside", such that if this butte were to fall, the world would end.John Holiday and Robert S. McPherson, A Navajo Legacy: The Life and Teachings of John Holiday, 2005 University of Oklahoma Press, page 360. It is also known as Turkey Butte.Sandy Nestor, Indian Placenames in America, 2015, McFarland and Company Publishers, page 22.