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Box Canyon (Nevada)
Box Canyon may refer to: *Box Canyon (Colorado), a canyon in Ouray County, Colorado *Earl M. Hardy Box Canyon Springs Nature Preserve, in Thousand Springs State Park Thousand Springs State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area consisting of multiple units — Billingsley Creek, Earl M. Hardy Box Canyon Springs Nature Preserve, Malad Gorge, Niagara Springs, and Ritter Island — in Gooding C ..., Idaho; sometimes referred to as "Box Canyon State Park" * Box Canyon (Doña Ana County, New Mexico), a canyon in Doña Ana County, New Mexico * Box Canyon Site, an archaeological site in Hidalgo County, New Mexico * Box Canyon, Texas, a census-designated place in Val Verde County, Texas See also * Box Canyon Dam (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Canyon (Colorado)
Box Canyon is a box canyon in Ouray County, Colorado, Ouray County, Colorado, United States. Description A mining camp was established in the canyon that helped the city of Ouray, Colorado, Ouray establish itself as a permanent community. Box Canyon is home to Box Canyon Falls, a waterfall, with quartzite walls that extend almost one hundred feet past the falls. Access to the canyon is through a short, foot trail to the base of the falls or a steep trail leading to the top of the falls. A fee is required to use the trails to the canyon. See also References External links Canyons and gorges of Colorado Landforms of Ouray County, Colorado {{Colorado-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thousand Springs State Park
Thousand Springs State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area consisting of multiple units — Billingsley Creek, Earl M. Hardy Box Canyon Springs Nature Preserve, Malad Gorge, Niagara Springs, and Ritter Island — in Gooding County, Idaho. Park units The state park was created in 2005, when four existing state parks in the Hagerman Valley were merged into a single entity, with an additional unit subsequently added to the complex. ;Billingsley Creek This former ranch was purchased by the state in 2001. One feature is the homesite of western author Vardis Fisher. Billingsley Creek Unit totals . ;Earl M. Hardy Box Canyon Springs Nature Preserve This box canyon has walls. At its head is the eleventh-largest spring in North America, gushing per minute. There is a waterfall. The property was developed by the Nature Conservancy which purchased the site in 1999, then completed its transfer to the state in 2016. (Does this include Priestly's Hydraulic Ram, lis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Canyon (Doña Ana County, New Mexico)
Box Canyon, originally known as Picacho Pass,Ormsby, Waterman L., edited by Wright, Lyle H. and Bynum, Josephine M., The Butterfield Overland Mail, Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage, The Huntington Library, San Marino, 2007,pp.81-82 is a canyon in Doña Ana County, New Mexico. Its mouth lies at an elevation of . Its source is at . History Box Canyon, was known as Pecatch Pass, to Waterman L. Ormsby, who traveled westward through it on the first westbound stage of the Butterfield Overland Mail. This was a mistake of Picacho Pass, the name derived from the Picacho Mountain nearby to the south of the canyon as was the village of Picacho where Ormsby's coach changed horses at the Picacho Stage Station just south of the mouth of the canyon. Ormsby described the pass: :"Our road lay through what was called the Pecatch icachoPass, and, I walked nearly all the way through it, it seemed to me rather mountainous. It was about two miles long and had some very bad hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Canyon Site
The Box Canyon Site is a prehistoric archaeological site in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. The site was occupied during the Animas phase (1200–1350); some artifacts may also date from the Salado phase (1350–1450) The principal feature of the site is an adobe house mound containing more than 100 rooms. A 1962 excavation explored 18 of the rooms; artifacts recovered from the investigation include ceramics, stone and metal flakes, and some cobbles.Duran, Meliha S. ''National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Box Canyon Site (restricted)''. National Park Service. May 1992. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places on Jan. 28, 1993. See also *National Register of Historic Places listings in Hidalgo County, New Mexico __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Hidalgo County, New Mexico. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hida ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Box Canyon, Texas
Box Canyon is a census-designated place (CDP) in Val Verde County, Texas, United States. The population was 34 at the 2010 census. This CDP was formed prior to the 2010 census from parts of the deleted Box Canyon-Amistad CDP. Geography Box Canyon is located at (29.5335, -101.1586). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of , all of it land. Education The area is served by the Comstock Independent School District. The whole county is served by Southwest Texas Junior College according to the Texas Education Code. See also *Box Canyon-Amistad, Texas Box Canyon-Amistad was a census-designated place (CDP) in Val Verde County, Texas, United States. The population was 76 at the 2000 census. For the 2010 census, the area was delineated as two separate CDPs, Amistad and Box Canyon. Geography Bo ..., name of CDP at 2000 census References Census-designated places in Texas Census-designated places in Val Verde County, Texas {{ValVer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
