Factory Hill Explained

Factory Hill
Elevation Ft:9527
Elevation Ref:[1]
Map:Wyoming
Location:Yellowstone National Park,
Park County, Wyoming, US
Range:Red Mountains
Coordinates:44.295°N -110.5336°W
Topo:USGS Mount Sheridan

Factory Hill el. 9527feet is a mountain peak in the Red Mountains of Yellowstone National Park. It is directly north of Mount Sheridan and west of the Heart Lake Geyser Basin. Early in the history of Yellowstone, this peak was called Red Mountain by the Hayden surveys, a name later transferred to the range in which it resides. In 1885, the Hague Geological Survey gave the peak its present name based on the following passage by Nathaniel P. Langford in his 1871 Scribner's account of the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition. Langford's party was camped near the south arm of Yellowstone Lake at the time.[2]

Factory Hill was so named because the noise and steam proceeding from them resembled in this respect an active factory town.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. 1609249. Factory Hill. 2010-01-20.
  2. Book: Whittlesey, Lee . Yellowstone Place Names . Montana Historical Society Press . Helena, MT . 0-917298-15-2 . 1988 . 53–54.
  3. Book: The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States . Govt. Print. Off. . Gannett, Henry . 1905 . 123.