Hancock Butte is a summit located in the

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, in

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of northern

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, US. It is situated one mile south of the Point Imperial viewpoint on the canyon's North Rim, where it towers above Nankoweap Canyon. Its nearest higher neighbor is Mount Hayden, one mile to the north-northeast, Kibbey Butte is one mile to the south-southwest, and

Brady Peak Brady Peak is an -elevation summit located in the Grand Canyon, in Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County of northern Arizona, Southwestern United States, United States. It is situated northeast of the Vista Encantada viewpoint on the canyon' ...

is 1.5 mile to the southeast. Hancock Butte is named after William A. Hancock (1831–1902), a pioneer and politician of the

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known for performing the survey work required to create the town of Phoenix and erecting the first building there in 1870. This geographical feature's name was officially adopted in 1932 by the

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. According to the

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system, Hancock Butte is located in a

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zone.

Geology

Hancock Butte is a

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topped by

Esplanade Sandstone The Lower Permian Esplanade Sandstone is a cliff-forming, resistant sandstone, dark red, geologic unit found in the Grand Canyon. The rock unit forms a resistant shelf in the west Grand Canyon, south side of the Colorado River, at the east of t ...

, part of the

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-Permian

Supai Group The Supai Group is a slope-forming section of red bed deposits found in the Colorado Plateau. The group was laid down during the Pennsylvanian to Lower Permian. Cliff-forming interbeds of sandstone are noticeable throughout the group. The Su ...

overlaying the cliff-forming Mississippian Redwall Limestone.William Kenneth Hamblin, ''Anatomy of the Grand Canyon: Panoramas of the Canyon's Geology'', 2008, Grand Canyon Association Publisher, . Precipitation

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from this feature drains east into the

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via Nankoweap Creek.

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File:William Augustus Hancock.jpg, William Augustus Hancock File:South of Point Imperial.jpg, Aerial view with south aspect front and center, Mt. Hayden to right, Point Imperial centered at top File:Grand Canyon from Point Imperial 11.jpg, Mt. Hayden to left, Hancock Butte lower right Grand Canyon from Point Imperial 10.jpg, Hancock Butte lower left File:Grand Canyon DEIS Aerial Sullivan Pk, Hancock Butte & Mt. Hayden (5477239598).jpg, Aerial view of Hancock Butte with Mt. Hayden behind it.

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* Weather forecast
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