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Mount Rainier is the tallest mountain in Washington and the Cascade Range. This peak is located southeast of Tacoma, approximately 60 miles (97 km) south-southeast of Seattle. [27] [28] Mount Rainier has a topographic prominence of 13,210 ft (4,026 m). [2]
At Auburn, the Green River emerges from the Green River Valley and enters the much larger Auburn/Kent Valley, which was created by glacial action during the Pleistocene ice ages, then filled in by river sediments and lahars from Mount Rainier. After flowing generally west from its source, at Auburn the river turns north, entering a zone of ...
View of Mount Rainier from The Post at Tehaleh. Tehaleh, [1] formerly known as Cascadia, is a master-planned unincorporated community to the south of Bonney Lake in Pierce County, Washington, United States. Construction began in 2005 with an estimated timeline for completion of 20 years. [2]
In the wake of the Mount St. Helens eruption, the US Geological Survey set up an lahar detection system at Mount Rainier in 1998, which since 2017 has been upgraded and expanded.
Kautz Creek is a tributary of the Nisqually River, flowing from the Kautz Glacier, with its watershed in the Mount Rainier National Park of Washington.It drains southwest from Mount Rainier for about 6 miles (9.7 km) before it joins the Nisqually River near Mount Rainier Highway.
The Puyallup River (/ p juː ˈ æ l ə p / pyew-AL-əp) is a river in the U.S. state of Washington.About 45 miles (72 km) long, it is formed by glaciers on the west side of Mount Rainier.
Mount Rainier from Ricksecker Point, 1932 Tacoma—seat of Pierce County Mount Rainier hazard map. Pierce County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, the population was 921,130, [1] up from 795,225 in 2010, making it the second-most populous county in Washington, behind King County, and the 59th-most populous in the United States.
Pyramid Peak is a 6,937-foot (2,114-metre) mountain summit located in Mount Rainier National Park in Pierce County of Washington state. [3] It is part of the Cascade Range and overlooks Indian Henry's Hunting Ground. It is situated at the base of the Success Cleaver, south of South Tahoma Glacier, and southwest of Pyramid Glacier.