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Butcher Hills

hills nrear Ekalaka, Montana

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ5002451 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Butcher Hills, elevation 3,553 feet (1,083 m), is a set of hills near Ekalaka, Montana in Carter County, Montana.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Butcher Hills” as hills nrear Ekalaka, Montana. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 20-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Butcher, Hills and hills can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as hills nrear Ekalaka, Montana. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5002451. Authority coordinates are 45.176, -104.366. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Butcher Hills” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.