Quartz Mountain is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Lake County in the U.S. state of

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. It lies in the

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along

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between Bly and Lakeview. Quartz Creek, a tributary of Drews Creek, which feeds Goose Lake, flows through the community. Quartz Mountain is also the name of a ridge crossed by Route 140 at this point, about northwest of Lakeview. The mountain, the community, the creek, Quartz Mountain Pass, and Quartz Valley are named after a ledge of

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in this ridge. Quartz Mountain Pass is the highest point along Route 140. In 1930, a post office named ''Quartz Mountain'' was established along the highway near the pass. Vera A. Real was its first and only

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. The post office closed in 1943, and thereafter the Quartz Mountain mail went instead to Lakeview.

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Unincorporated communities in Lake County, Oregon Unincorporated communities in Oregon {{LakeCountyOR-geo-stub