Clatsop Butte is an

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butte __NOTOC__ In geomorphology, a butte () is an isolated hill with steep, often vertical sides and a small, relatively flat top; buttes are smaller landforms than mesas, plateaus, and tablelands. The word ''butte'' comes from a French word mea ...

lying directly south of

Powell Butte Powell Butte is an extinct cinder cone butte in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is part of the Boring Lava Field, which includes more than 80 small volcanic edifices and lava flows in the Portland–Vancouver metropolitan area. The region ...

in southeast

Portland, Oregon Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous co ...

, United States. Clatsop Butte City Park, which occupies part of the butte, is at coordinates at an elevation of . Johnson Creek, Southeast Foster Road, and the

Springwater Corridor The Springwater Corridor Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian rail trail in the Portland metropolitan area in Oregon, United States. It follows a former railway line from Boring through Gresham to Portland, where it ends south of the Eastbank Espla ...

Trail pass between

and Clatsop Butte near Southeast 152nd Avenue. The City of Portland acquired about of land on the butte for a park and natural area in 2000. Other land acquisitions increased the park's size to by 2007 but led to controversy about public expenditures. A 16-member oversight committee was to review the purchases in 2008 to decide whether the money had been wisely spent. As of 2008,

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the regional government in the Oregon part of the Portland metropolitan area, included of the acreage on its list of protected natural areas. The natural area, comprising densely forested hillsides and creek frontage, supports wildlife including deer, foxes,

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northern flicker The northern flicker or common flicker (''Colaptes auratus'') is a medium-sized bird of the woodpecker family. It is native to most of North America, parts of Central America, Cuba, and the Cayman Islands, and is one of the few woodpecker spec ...

s, pileated woodpeckers and other local and migratory birds.

References

Buttes of Oregon Mountains of Oregon Geography of Portland, Oregon Landforms of Multnomah County, Oregon Parks in Portland, Oregon Southeast Portland, Oregon Protected areas established in 2000 Volcanoes of Oregon Volcanoes of the United States Cascade Volcanoes {{MultnomahCountyOR-geo-stub