Quartz Mountain (Douglas County, Oregon)
Quartz Mountain is a located 35 miles (56 km) east of Roseburg in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. Located within the Jackson Creek subbasin, a tributary of the South Umpqua River, Quartz Mountain rises to an elevation of 5,200 feet (1,585 m) in the Umpqua National Forest. It has a large deposit of high-purity silica.
Quartz Mountain L-5 cab erected in 1933
The summit was the site of a Forest Service lookout tower until it was removed in 1970.
References
- ^ "Quartz Mountain, Oregon". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ "Quartz Mtn Lookout House". NGS Data Sheet. National Geodetic Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ "Distance and Bearing between two coordinates". Geody.com. Retrieved August 8, 2011.
- ^ "The Quartz Mountain Silica Deposit, Oregon" (PDF). Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. November 1960. Retrieved June 14, 2011.
- ^ "Quartz Mountain Lookout Site". Forest Fire Lookout Association. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
External links
- Bernstein, Art (2003). Oregon byways: 75 scenic drives in the Cascades and Siskiyous, canyons and coast. Wilderness Press. p. 102. ISBN 0-89997-277-2.
- "Quartz Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.