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The Clifton F. McClintic Wildlife Management Area, known locally as "the TNT area", [4] is a naturalized area located in Mason County about 5 miles (8 km) north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Located on 3,655 acres (1,479 ha) of former wartime industrial land, the WMA is occupied by farmland, woodlands, and wetlands encompassing 31 ponds. [2]
The Sand Prairie-Scrub Oak Nature Preserve, formerly called the Mason County State Wildlife Refuge and Recreation Area, is a 1,460 acre (591 ha) State Natural Area and Illinois Nature Preserve located in western Mason County, Illinois. The nearest town is Kilbourne, Illinois and the nearest numbered highway is Illinois Route 97. It contains ...
The preserve is on the border of Thurston County and Mason County and contains 203 acres (82 ha) of intertidal salt marsh and upland forest. [2] The Area is located approximately 100 yards from the junction of U.S. Highway 101 and Old Olympic Highway, about a 15-minute drive from Washington's capital city of Olympia. Parking areas are located ...
The former name was Mason State Forest. [7] [8] In 1971, the Division of Land Management took over management of the forest and renamed it Sand Ridge State Forest. [3] The Sand Ridge State Forest contains the Clear Lake Site, an archeological site listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1978.
Belfair is a census-designated place in Mason County, Washington, United States. Located at the mouth of the Union River at Hood Canal, it serves as the commercial center of northern Mason County. The population of the surrounding area grows in the summertime, as the Canal and the Olympic Peninsula are popular with tourists.
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 563 square miles (1,460 km 2), of which 539 square miles (1,400 km 2) is land and 24 square miles (62 km 2) (4.3%) is water. [3] Mason County is bound on the south by the Sangamon River, and on the west by the Illinois River. These rivers join at the county's southwest tip.
The current village is actually the second settlement in Mason County to be named Free Soil. [5] There are still a few homes in the area now known as "Old Freesoil". The railroad was extended to Free Soil around 1882, and the village was incorporated in 1912. [6] The community derives its name from the Free Soil Party. [7]