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Steens may refer to: * Steens, Mississippi, an unincorporated community * Steens Mountain, a fault-block mountain in southeast Oregon state See also * Ron Steens (b. 1952), Dutch field hockey player * Steens Highway, Oregon Route 78 {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steens, Mississippi
Steens, also known as Jamisons Mill, is an unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Mississippi. Steens is located northeast of Columbus. The ZIP Code for Steens is 39766. History Steens is located adjacent to Luxapallila Creek and is located on the former Southern Railway. In 1838, Robert Jamison founded a grist mill, store, and smithy along Luxapallila Creek near the present site of Steens. In addition, he built multiple covered bridges in the area. In 1900, the population was 26. The community once had a cotton gin and exported large amounts of lumber, fertilizer, and cotton seed. A post office operated under the name Steenston from 1884 to 1903 and under the names Steens starting in 1903. The Caledonia Combined Cycle Plant, a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant, is located on 125 acres of land near Steens. The Steens soil series is named for the community. Notable person * Bob McCrory, former relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles The Baltimore Orioles a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steens Mountain
Steens Mountain is in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Oregon, and is a large fault-block mountain. Located in Harney County, it stretches some north to south, and rises from the west side the Alvord Desert at elevation of about to a summit elevation of . Steens Mountain is not part of a mountain range but is properly a single mountain, the largest of Oregon's fault-block mountains.Conkling, C., Jackman, E. R., & Scharff, J. (1967)Steens Mountain in Oregon's high desert country Caxton Press. Retrieved April 25, 2022 The Steens Mountain Wilderness encompasses of Steens Mountain. of the Wilderness are protected from grazing and free of cattle. History The mountain was called the "Snowy Mountains" by John Work, one of the fur traders who were the first Europeans in the area. It was renamed in 1860 for United States Army Major Enoch Steen, who fought and drove members of the Paiute tribe off the mountain. American Indians used the Steens Mountain, particularly Big I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Steens
Ronaldus "Ron" Franciscus Johannes Steens (born 18 June 1952) is a former field hockey player from The Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch National Team that finished sixth in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. Eight years earlier the midfielder was also on the Holland squad, that ended up fourth at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Steens, a powerful midfield player who played club hockey for HC Klein Zwitserland, earned a total number of 166 caps, scoring 43 goals, in the years 1973–1985. He retired from international hockey a year before the 1986 Men's Hockey World Cup in London. His younger brother Tim was also a field hockey international for Holland. Nowadays, Ron Steens works as a HR consultant at GITP, a HRD consultancy firm, founded in 1947 in collaboration with the Nijmegen University Radboud University (abbreviated as RU, nl, Radboud Universiteit , formerly ''Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen'') is a public research university locate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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