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Quartz Mountain is a located 35 miles (56 km) east of Roseburg in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. [1] [3] Located within the Jackson Creek subbasin, a tributary of the South Umpqua River, Quartz Mountain rises to an elevation of 5,200 feet (1,585 m) in the Umpqua National Forest. It has a large deposit of high-purity silica. [4]
Name Location Area (acres) Area (km 2) Established Annual visitors (2006) [1] Deschutes: Deschutes, Klamath, Lake, and Jefferson counties: 1,596,900 6,462: July 1, 1908
Quartz Mountain is an unincorporated community in Lake County in the U.S. state of Oregon. [1] It lies in the Fremont–Winema National Forest along Oregon Route 140 between Bly and Lakeview . Quartz Creek, a tributary of Drews Creek, which feeds Goose Lake , flows through the community.
The Pumice Plateau is the largest of the Eastern Cascades subregions, covering 4,236 square miles (10,970 km 2) in Oregon between Bend and Klamath Falls. It contains extensive areas within the Deschutes and Fremont-Winema National Forests (including the Gearhart Mountain Wilderness) and the lower elevations of the Newberry National Volcanic ...
Oregon: private: An excellent illustration of "biscuit and scabland" topography. [3] Newberry Crater: 1976: Deschutes: federal: Atypical shield volcano in Deschutes National Forest. Mount Howard-East Peak: 2016
The Little River is a tributary of the North Umpqua River, about 30 miles (48 km) long, in southwestern Oregon in the United States. [4] It drains part of the western side of the Cascade Range east of Roseburg, between the North and South Umpqua. [4] Little River rises north of Quartz Mountain in eastern Douglas County in the Umpqua National ...
W.N. Flynt Granite Co., in Monson, Massachusetts, a granite quarry that opened in 1809 and operated until 1935. By 1888, the company employed over 200 workers, and produced about 30,000 tons of granite per year. Quincy Quarries Reservation, in Quincy, Massachusetts, producer of granite from 1826 to 1963, including for the Bunker Hill Monument.
The Oregon Badlands Wilderness is a 29,301-acre (11,858 ha) wilderness area located east of Bend in Deschutes and Crook counties in the U.S. state of Oregon.The wilderness is managed by the Bureau of Land Management as part of the National Landscape Conservation System and was created by the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on 30 ...