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Factory Hill
Illusion of Factory Smokestacks
Hill
in
Yellowstone NP
,
Rocky Mountains
near
Grant Village
,
WY
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Factory Hill is a peak in the Red Mountains. In 1885, the Hague Geological Survey gave the peak its present name “Factory Hill” based on Nathaniel P. Langford’s description of steam vents near the mountain. In the June 1871 issue of Scribner’s Monthly, Langford recounted while their 1870 Yellowstone expedition searched for lost member Truman Everts, seeing the smoking thermal areas near Heart Lake:
Through the hazy atmosphere we beheld, on the shore of the inlet opposite our camp, the steam ascending in jets from more than fifty craters, giving it much the appearance of a New England factory village (p. 120).
— Langford
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The reflection of Factory Hill, the far left pyramid-shaped peak, with Mount Sheridan directly behind it, can be seen in Riddle Lake. Photograph above courtesy of A. Falgoust (NPS).
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Factory Hill el. 9,527 feet (2,904 m) 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 call 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. Factory Hill was so named because the noise and steam proceeding from them resembled in this respect an active factory town. Through the hazy atmosphere we beheld, on the shore of…
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Langford, N. P. “The Wonders of the Yellowstone.”
Scribner’s Monthly
, June 1871.
http://archive.org/details/scribnersmonthly02newy
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NPS. “Red Mountains.” Yellowstone National Park. Accessed November 11, 2023.
https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/red-mountains.htm
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Huckleberry Ridge Tuff of Yellowstone Group (WYThr;0)
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Huckleberry Ridge Tuff
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Yellowstone Group
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