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Hampton Butte WSA covers 10,600 acres (4,300 ha), while Cougar Well WSA, further south, covers 17,315 acres (7,007 ha). [4] The BLM also oversees a rockhounding area at Hampton Buttes that is known for its petrified wood. [5]
The Dry River is an intermittent tributary, 88 miles (142 km) long, [3] of the Crooked River in the U.S. state of Oregon.The stream arises near Hampton Buttes north of Hampton and U.S. Route 20 between Brothers and Riley in the Oregon High Desert.
The nearest settlement is the small unincorporated community of Hampton, Oregon, located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the buttes. [1] [2] [3] Glass Buttes include two prominent peaks and a number of adjacent hills. The highest point in the Glass Buttes complex is known as Glass Butte. Its elevation is 6,388 feet (1,947 m) above sea level.
Near the Tri-Cities, rockhounding is popular along the Columbia River, Horse Heaven Hills, Saddle Mountains, Bickleton and the Ginkgo Petrified Forest State Park. Rockhounding on WA DNR-managed land
Rockhounding is legal in Washington for certain materials. The material guidelines will depend on where you are: federal land, land managed by the Department of Natural Resources or private land.
Created by the Round Butte Dam in 1964, Lake Billy Chinook lies in a canyon at the confluence of the Crooked, Deschutes, and Metolius rivers near Culver and Madras. It was named for Billy Chinook, a Native American of the Wasco tribe who traveled alongside American explorers John C. Frémont and Kit Carson in their expeditions of 1843 and 1844. [4]
From 1887 to 1911, Black Butte Summit was the name of a station on the Southern Pacific (SP) Siskiyou Line near Summit Lake, about a mile south of Black Butte. [9] In 1924–1926, the Natron Cutoff was built by SP as an alternative to the steep Siskiyou route and a small rail yard, wye, and train orders office were built at the present site of Black Butte on the rerouted line. [9]
Marysville Buttes (Sutter Buttes) Gas Field Geologic map Marysville Buttes (Sutter Buttes) Gas Field Geologic Cross Section with 3x vertical exaggeration. The Sutter Buttes (Maidu: Histum Yani or Esto Yamani, Wintun: Olonai-Tol, Nisenan: Estom Yanim) are a small circular complex of eroded volcanic lava domes which rise as buttes above the flat plains of the Sacramento Valley in Sutter County ...