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{{Short description|Butte in Navajo County, Arizona}}
{{Infobox mountain
| name = Merrick Butte
| photo = Monument Valley Merrick Butte.jpg
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| elevation_ft = 6206
| elevation_ref = {{navd88}}<ref name="pb">{{cite peakbagger |pid=56897 |name=Merrick Butte |accessdate=2016-08-22}}</ref>
| prominence_ft = 966
| prominence_ref = <ref name="pb"/>
| parent_peak =
| map = USA Arizona#USA
| map_caption = none
| map_size = 180
| label = Merrick<br />Butte
| label_position = bottom
| listing =
| location = [[Navajo County, Arizona|Navajo County]], [[Arizona|Arizona. U.S.]]
| range =
| coordinates = {{coord|36.9805572|N|110.0859588|W|type:mountain_region:US-AZ_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
| range_coordinates =
| coordinates_ref = <ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis |id=7886 |name=Merrick Butte |accessdate=2016-08-22}}</ref>
| topo = [[United States Geological Survey|USGS]] Mitten Buttes
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'''Merrick Butte''' is a [[butte]] located in [[Monument Valley]]<ref name=USGS>Mitten Buttes Quadrangle, Arizona-Utah, 7.5 Minute Series, US Geological Survey, 1738 ed.</ref> and is part of the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park, similar to its neighbors [[West and East Mitten Buttes]] just to the north.<ref>''Arizona Atlas & Gazetteer,'' De Lorme, 4th ed., 2001, p. 26 {{ISBN|0-89933-325-7}}</ref> It was named after silver miner Jack Merrick, killed by Native Americans in 1880.

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==External links==
* {{commons category-inline|Merrick Butte}}

[[Category:Buttes of Arizona]]
[[Category:Landforms of Navajo County, Arizona]]