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Quarry Hill is the name of several places in the world: Quarry Hill, Leeds, England; Quarry Hill (Hong Kong) Quarry Hill, Victoria, in Bendigo, Australia; Quarry Hill (Greene County, New York), US; Quarry Hill (Riverside, California), in Riverside, California, US; Quarry Hill Creative Center, Rochester, Vermont, US
It is midway between the village of Goshen and Florida, at the junction of NY 17A and Quarry Road (Orange County Route 68), built into the side of a 580-foot (177 m) hill known as Mount Lookout. In the 1960s, archaeologists digging at the site found caves with artifacts left by hunter-gatherers 12,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.
The quarry became inactive circa 1902. [3] [4] In 1964, the Nuns Canyon Fire burned more than 10,000 acres in the Mayacamas Mountains above Glen Ellen, CA. [5] In 1968, San Francisco resident Jane Davenport Jansen purchased forty-plus acres northeast of Glen Ellen, CA for a summer home. In 1970 she planted cabernet vineyards on the valley floor ...
Quartz Hill is a census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The population was 10,912 at the 2010 census, up from 9,890 at the 2000 census. The name is also shared with the neighboring district areas of its border cities, Palmdale, and Lancaster. Quartz Hill was once home to the Quartz Hill Airport.
Groundwater fills the current quarry and is pumped into Permanente Creek. Selenium pollution in the creek downstream from the quarry ranged from 13 to 81 micrograms/liter (μg/L). A North Quarry water sample in January 2010 had a dissolved selenium concentration of 82 μg/L, indicating that the quarry is the source of the selenium pollution.
Carson Hill (also, Carson Flat and Melones [2] and Slumgullion) is a ghost town in Calaveras County, California. It sits at an elevation of 1447 feet (441 m) above sea level and is located at 38°01′42″N 120°30′24″W / 38.02833°N 120.50667°W / 38.02833; -120.50667 , about 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southeast of Angels
A major landslide continues to threaten more homes in Rolling Hills Estates, southern California, after 12 were destroyed when the hillside gave way and began sliding into the canyon below on ...
Rattlesnake Peak (Riverside County, California) [9] La Sierra Summit [10] Grape Benchmark [11] Riverside Valley. Pedley Hills; Lake Evans reservoir [12] Spring Brook [13] North Hill; Mount Rubidoux; Tequesquito Arroyo [14] Box Springs Canyon [15] Sycamore Canyon [16] Pachappa Hill [17] Victoria Hill; Alessandro Arroyo [18] Quarry Hill [19 ...