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The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
The Hanford Reach National Monument is a national monument in the U.S. state of Washington. It was created in 2000, mostly from the former security buffer surrounding the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The area has been untouched by development or agriculture since 1943. For this reason, it is considered an involuntary park.
Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide, [2] Washington is home to approximately 1,500, [3] and 16 of those are found partially or wholly in Benton County. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024.
The free tours begin and end at the visitor center at 2000 Logston Blvd. in Richland and include bus rides to and from the reactor. Visitors must take the bus to get to the B Reactor. Tours are ...
White Bluffs was an agricultural town in Benton County, Washington, United States. It was depopulated in 1943 along with the town of Hanford to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site.
Green areas on this map of Hanford land just north of Richland show the land most important for Tri-Cities development, particularly the area marked as “Corridor,” according to the Tri-City ...
Rattlesnake Mountain (Native American name Lalíik meaning "land above the water") is a 3,531 ft (1,060 m) windswept treeless ridge overlooking the Hanford nuclear site. Parts of the western slope are privately owned ranchland, while the eastern slope is under the federal protection of the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve , a unit of the Hanford ...
The 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation site adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear ...