Ford Butte

{{Short description|Summit on Navajo Nation land in New Mexico}}

{{Infobox mountain

|name = Ford Butte

|photo = Ford Butte (Navajo Volcanic Field, northwestern New Mexico, USA).jpg

|photo_caption = Southwest aspect

|elevation_ft = 6156

|elevation_ref = Robert Julyan, The Mountains of New Mexico, 2006, University of New Mexico Press, page 109.

|prominence_ft = 526

|prominence_ref =

|isolation_mi = 1.74

|isolation_ref = {{cite web|url=https://listsofjohn.com/peak/15130|title=Ford Butte - 6,156' NM|website=listsofjohn.com|accessdate=2020-12-02}}

|parent_peak = Bennett Peak (6,471 ft)[https://peakvisor.com/peak/ford-butte.html Ford Butte, Peakvisor.com, retrieved December 2, 2020]

|range = Chuska Mountains[https://peakvisor.com/peak/ford-butte.html Ford Butte, Peakvisor.com, retrieved December 2, 2020]
Colorado Plateau

|location = San Juan County, New Mexico, US

|map = New Mexico#USA

|map_caption = Location in New Mexico

|map_size = 230

|coordinates = {{coord|36|23|03|N|108|42|28|W|type:mountain_region:US-NM_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=897367|name=Ford Butte|accessdate=2020-12-02}}

|topo = USGS Little Water

|type = Volcanic plug

|rock = Volcanic breccia

|age = Oligocene

|first_ascent = 1971

|easiest_route = {{YDS|5.7}} climbing

}}

Ford Butte is a {{convert|6,156|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|adj=on}} elevation summit located on Navajo Nation land in San Juan County of northwest New Mexico, United States. It is a landmark set one mile east of U.S. Route 491, along with its nearest higher neighbor, Bennett Peak, on the opposite side of the highway. Ford Butte is one of the major diatremes of the Four Corners area, and with significant relief as it rises {{convert|450|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} above the high-desert plain.Robert Julyan, The Mountains of New Mexico, 2006, University of New Mexico Press, page 109. It is situated about {{convert|22|mi}} south-southeast of Shiprock, the most famous of these diatremes. Ford Butte is set in the northeastern part of the Navajo Volcanic Field, 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}} This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1915 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.