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The Harney Peak fire tower was last staffed in 1967. [29] A United States post office was operated at Black Elk Peak from 1936 until 1942, and again from 1945 until 1946. [30] The Harney Peak post office was reportedly one of the "most elevated post offices in the United States". [31] A manmade dam was also created on the peak in 1935.
It is a part of the Harney Peak Granite dome that formed in the Late Paleoproterozoic around 1.7 billion years ago. [1] [2] [3] The Harney Peak Granite system includes thousands of pegmatites, one of which is the Tin Mountain. [1] The Tin Mountain pegmatite is rich in lithium, but was first mined in search of tin, which gave the mountain its ...
Harney National Forest was established by the U.S. Forest Service in South Dakota and Wyoming on July 1, 1911, with 642,550 acres (2,600.3 km 2) from part of Black Hills National Forest and other lands. On July 1, 1954, the entire forest was added to Black Hills and the name was discontinued.
Terry Peak is a mountain and ski area in the west central United States, in the Black Hills of South Dakota outside of Lead. [1] With an elevation of 7,064 feet (2,153 m) above sea level, it is the most prominent peak in the Northern Black Hills area, and the sixth highest summit in the range; the tallest is Black Elk Peak (formerly Harney Peak) at 7,244 feet (2,208 m).
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1] There are 63 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county. One property was once listed but has since been delisted.
The Harney section is an intermontane plateau in eastern Oregon that borders the Great Basin section to the south, the Middle Cascade section to the west and three other Columbia Plateau sections on the north, northeast, and east (Walla Walla, Blue Mountain, and Piute).
The Elliott Cutoff was a covered wagon road that branched off the Oregon Trail at the Malheur River where present-day Vale, Oregon, United States is today.The first portion of the road was originally known as the Meek Cutoff after Stephen Meek, a former trapper who led over 1,000 emigrants into the Harney Basin in 1845.
Harney Basin, arid basin in south-east Oregon; Harney County, Oregon; Harney Lake, shallow alkali lake basin in south-east Oregon; Harney National Forest (1911-1954), in South Dakota and Wyoming; Fort Harney, a former U.S. Army outpost in Oregon; Lake Harney, Florida; Black Elk Peak formerly Harney Peak, highest mountain in South Dakota