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Downtown Portland, with Mount Tabor (center) and Mount Hood in the distance. Mount Tabor is an extinct [1] [2] volcanic vent [3] with a city park on the volcano, located in Portland, Oregon's neighborhood of the same name. The name refers to Mount Tabor, Israel. It was named by Plympton Kelly, son of Oregon City pioneer resident Clinton Kelly. [4]
Mount Tabor is a neighborhood in Southeast Portland that takes its name from the volcanic cinder cone and city park on the volcano that it surrounds, in the U.S. state of Oregon. The name refers to Mount Tabor, Israel. It was named by Plympton Kelly, son of Oregon City pioneer resident Clinton Kelly. [2]
In 2000, the nonprofit Friends of Mt. Tabor Park was formed to help maintain the Mount Tabor Park area, [42] located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east of downtown Portland. [43] They have an organizational website and publish a bi-annual newsletter called the Tabor Times. Membership requires dues, and they also rely on donations and a gift shop for ...
When heat from wildfires rises skyward, it can create fire clouds and pyrocumulonimbus storms - enormous thunderheads that generate their own weather.
Rocky Butte (previously known as Mowich Illahee [4] and Wiberg Butte) is an extinct cinder cone butte in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is also part of the Boring Lava Field, a group of volcanic vents and lava flows throughout Oregon and Washington state. The volcano erupted between 285,000 and 500,000 years ago.
The Boring Lava Field has at least 32 cinder cones such as Mount Tabor, [74] and its center lies in southeast Portland. Mount St. Helens, a highly active volcano 50 miles (80 km) northeast of the city in Washington state, is easily visible on clear days and is close enough to have dusted the city with volcanic ash after its eruption on May 18 ...
Another eastern Oregon wildfire — the Lone Rock Fire — grew to 71,000 acres and was 10% contained as of Tuesday evening. The fire east of Condon ignited over the weekend and grew quickly.
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