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Buckskin Mountains (Arizona-Utah)
Buckskin Mountain is a mountain ridge that spans from Coconino County, Arizona to Kane County, Utah in the United States,Utah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, 7th Edition, c. 2010Arizona Road & Recreation Atlas, Benchmark Maps, 2nd Edition, c. 1998 that is divided almost equally between the two counties. Description The ridge lies at the north end of the Kaibab Plateau, of the North Rim of the Grand Canyon; the Kanab and Paria plateaus of Arizona, lie southwest, and southeast. Buckskin Mountain borders the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, southeast. The north portion of the ridge in Utah was located in the Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, but was in one of the sections that was later removed from the monument. The northeast ridge terminus is Buckskin Gulch. To the ridge's east, across the narrow Coyote Valley, of the north-flowing Coyote Wash, lies the Coyote Buttes of Arizona. The ridge trends approximately north-northeast, and descends steeply on its southeast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaibab Plateau
The Kaibab Plateau is a plateau almost entirely in Coconino County, Arizona (but extending slightly north into Kane County, Utah) in the Southwestern United States. The high plain is also known as the Buckskin Mountain, Buckskin Plateau, and Kaibab Mountain. Description The plateau, part of the larger Colorado Plateau, is bordered on the south by the Grand Canyon and reaches an elevation of . The plateau is divided between Kaibab National Forest and the "North Rim" portion of Grand Canyon National Park. Tributary canyons of the Colorado River form the plateau's eastern and western boundaries, and tiers of uplifted cliffs define the northern edges of the landform. Winter snowfall is often heavy (sometimes exceeding ), and this creates opportunities for backcountry Nordic skiing and snow camping. This broad feature is heavily forested with aspen, spruce- fir, ponderosa pine, and pinyon-juniper woodland, and stands in sharp contrast to the arid lowlands encircling it. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Vermilion Cliffs National Monument is located in northern Coconino County, Arizona, United States, immediately south of the Utah state line. This national monument, in area, protects the Paria Plateau, Vermilion Cliffs, Coyote Buttes, and Paria Canyon. Elevations in the monument range from 3,100 feet to 6,500 feet above sea level (944 to 1,981 meters). Creation and designation Established on November 9, 2000 by a presidential proclamation by President Bill Clinton, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument was carved from existing lands already under the management of the U.S. Government in extreme northern Coconino County, Arizona, immediately south of the border with the state of Utah. The monument is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. The Vermilion Cliffs themselves run along the southern and eastern edges of the monument. Much of the monument's land consists of the Paria Plateau, a flat area extending northwar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landforms Of Coconino County, Arizona
A landform is a natural or anthropogenic land feature on the solid surface of the Earth or other planetary body. Landforms together make up a given terrain, and their arrangement in the landscape is known as topography. Landforms include hills, mountains, canyons, and valleys, as well as shoreline features such as bays, peninsulas, and seas, including submerged features such as mid-ocean ridges, volcanoes, and the great ocean basins. Physical characteristics Landforms are categorized by characteristic physical attributes such as elevation, slope, orientation, stratification, rock exposure and soil type. Gross physical features or landforms include intuitive elements such as berms, mounds, hills, ridges, cliffs, valleys, rivers, peninsulas, volcanoes, and numerous other structural and size-scaled (e.g. ponds vs. lakes, hills vs. mountains) elements including various kinds of inland and oceanic waterbodies and sub-surface features. Mountains, hills, plateaux, and plains are the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridges Of Utah
A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for an extended distance. The sides of the ridge slope away from the narrow top on either side. The lines along the crest formed by the highest points, with the terrain dropping down on either side, are called the ridgelines. Ridges are usually termed hills or mountains as well, depending on size. Smaller ridges, especially those leaving a larger ridge, are often referred to as spurs. Types There are several main types of ridges: ;Dendritic ridge: In typical dissected plateau terrain, the stream drainage valleys will leave intervening ridges. These are by far the most common ridges. These ridges usually represent slightly more erosion resistant rock, but not always – they often remain because there were more joints where the valleys formed or other chance occurrences. This type of ridge is generally somewhat random in orientation, often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridges Of Arizona
A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain of mountains or hills that form a continuous elevated crest for an extended distance. The sides of the ridge slope away from the narrow top on either side. The lines along the crest formed by the highest points, with the terrain dropping down on either side, are called the ridgelines. Ridges are usually termed hills or mountains as well, depending on size. Smaller ridges, especially those leaving a larger ridge, are often referred to as spurs. Types There are several main types of ridges: ;Dendritic drainage, Dendritic ridge: In typical dissected plateau terrain, the stream drainage valleys will leave intervening ridges. These are by far the most common ridges. These ridges usually represent slightly more erosion resistant rock, but not always – they often remain because there were more Joint (geology), joints where the valleys formed or other chance occurrences. This type of ridge is generally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fredonia, Arizona
Fredonia is a town in Coconino County, Arizona, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,314. Fredonia is the gateway to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. History Fredonia was laid out in 1886. Its name is said to mean the "land of free women." The town's cemetery has graves dating from the 1880s. The town suffered economically from the re-routing of U.S. 89 in 1960. While the highway previously went through Fredonia, it was re-routed north of the Glen Canyon dam, and the town lost several businesses due to a drop in traffic. Senator Barry Goldwater gave the commencement at Fredonia High School in 1964. Kaibab Forest Products was the major industry in town until 1995, when it closed and laid off 200 workers. It had employed up to 400 workers in 1988. The Arizona One mine is also located nearby. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 1,036 people, 359 households, and 287 families residing in the town. The population density was . There wer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanab, Utah
Kanab ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Kane County, Utah, United States.Find a County ". ''National Association of Counties''. Retrieved June 7, 2011. It is located on just north of the state line. This area was first settled in 1864, and the town was founded in 1870 when ten families moved into the area. Named for a word meaning "place of the willows, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Water, Utah
Big Water is a town in Kane County, Utah, United States. The population was 475 at the 2010 census, up from 417 at the 2000 census. It is located northwest of Page, Arizona, on US-89 near Lake Powell and the Glen Canyon Dam. It was originally called Glen Canyon City and housed workers who built the dam in the 1950s. Big Water made news in the 1980s as a polygamous colony of the Joseph clan. It also made news in 1986, when the mayor Alex Joseph and the city council left the Republican Party to join the Libertarian Party. This made Joseph the first Libertarian mayor in the history of the U.S. Subsequently, Willy Marshall, also a Libertarian, was elected as the state's first openly gay mayor in 2001. It was the first place in the United States with a city council where every member was in the Libertarian Party. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all of it land. Climate According to the Köppen Climate Classification system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Rock, Arizona
House Rock is a ghost town near the northwest end of the House Rock Valley in northern Coconino County, Arizona, Coconino County, Arizona, United States. The community was named after the House Rock Valley, which was named by the John Wesley Powell Expedition in 1871. (However, the site where the expedition spent the night and the community are on the opposite ends of the valley.) Description The mostly abandoned locale is just east of the Kaibab National Forest and the mouth of House Rock Canyon (Coconino County, Arizona), House Rock Canyon at the southwest corner of, but just outside of, the Vermilion Cliffs National Monument (which was established in 2000). House Rock is located along what was, prior to 1960, U.S. Route 89 in Arizona, U.S. Route 89 (US 89), but is now U.S. Route 89A in Arizona, U.S. Route 89A (US 89A). Little remains of the community, other than a few houses and a small cemetery, but the site is an important road junction for access to the nearby na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckskin Gulch (Utah)
Buckskin Gulch (also known as Buckskin Creek, Buckskin Wash, and Kaibab Gulch) is a gulch and canyon located within southern Kane County, Utah, United States. It is located near the Arizona border and is one of the main tributaries of the Paria River which is a tributary of the Colorado River It is over long. Buckskin Gulch is the longest and deepest slot canyon in the Southwestern United States. Often visited in conjunction with the longer Paria Canyon, due to their close proximity of , hiking both canyons in one day is possible. Wire Pass, a short tributary to Buckskin, is a popular day-hiking alternative that takes hikers through the narrow, curving features which are the hallmarks of the slot canyons. Access Buckskin Gulch is reached via U. S. Route 89 (US‑89) in Utah or U. S. Route 89 A (US 89 A) in Arizona, and is roughly halfway between the towns of Kanab, Utah and Page, Arizona. There are four access routes to the canyon. There is a $6 per pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaibab National Forest
At 1.6 million acres (650,000 ha) the Kaibab National Forest borders both the north and south rims of the Grand Canyon, in north-central Arizona. It is divided into three major sections: the ''North Kaibab Ranger District'' (offices in Fredonia) and the South Kaibab and are managed by the United States Forest Service. The South Kaibab is further divided into two districts, the ''Tusayan Ranger District'' (offices in the Grand Canyon), and the ''Williams Ranger District'' (offices in Williams). Grand Canyon National Park separates the North Kaibab and the South Kaibab. The South Kaibab covers and the North Kaibab stretches over . Elevations vary on the forest from 5,500 feet (1,676 m) in the southwest corner to 10,418 feet (3,175 m) at the summit of Kendrick Peak on the Williams Ranger District. The forest as a whole is headquartered in Williams. North Kaibab The Kaibab Plateau is an island surrounded by lower elevations. The plateau, with elevation up to 9,215 feet (2,800 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Canyon (Buckskin Mountain)
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