butte
Speech parts
1. butte - Noun
2. Butte - Proper noun
Meaning
A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
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Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.
A blacksmith shop was opened in the 1890s by John Gaarde across from the Tigard Store, and in 1896 a new E. Butte school was opened to handle the growth the community was experiencing from an incoming wave of German settlers.
After 1910, they settled in Utah (Bingham Copper Mine), Colorado (especially Pueblo), and Butte, Montana.
BUTTE, Mont. (AP) — A mental health counselor from Butte has pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid by billing the federal program for services that she did not provide.
BUTTE MEADOWS (CBS13) – Authorities say they rescued a man who had gotten stuck in the snow with his girlfriend in Butte County.
Butte County sits within a region sometimes referred to as the State of Jefferson, the name of a proposed U.S. state spanning rural parts of Northern California and Southern Oregon where a group of residents first started a secession movement in 1941.