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Yellowstone National Park. / 44.59639°N 110.54722°W / 44.59639; -110.54722. Yellowstone National Park is a national park located in the western United States, largely in the northwest corner of Wyoming and extending into Montana and Idaho.
On July 24, 1871, the survey team departed Mammoth en route to Tower Fall. They took a route very close to today's Mammoth-Tower road passing both Undine Falls 44°56′39″N 110°38′20″W on Lava Creek and Wraith Falls 44°56′14″N 110°37′25″W on Lupine Creek. They reached and camped at Tower Creek on July 25, 1871.
Discharge. 3,700–8,400 US gal (14,000–32,000 L) Old Faithful is a cone geyser in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, United States. It was named in 1870 during the Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition and was the first geyser in the park to be named. [ 3][ 4] It is a highly predictable geothermal feature and has erupted every 44 minutes ...
The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake (also known as the 1959 Yellowstone earthquake) [ 4] occurred in the western United States on August 17 at 11:37 pm ( MST) in southwestern Montana. [ 4][ 5] The earthquake measured 7.2 on the moment magnitude scale, [ 1] caused a huge landslide, resulted in over 28 fatalities and left $ 11 million (equivalent to ...
Steamboat Geyser, in Yellowstone National Park 's Norris Geyser Basin, is the world's tallest active geyser. Steamboat Geyser has two vents, northern and southern, approximately 20 feet (6.1 m) apart. The north vent is responsible for the tallest water columns; the south vent's water columns are shorter. [ 3 ]
The Washburn Expedition of 1870 explored the region of northwestern Wyoming that two years later became Yellowstone National Park. Led by Henry D. Washburn and Nathaniel P. Langford, and with a U.S. Army escort headed by Lt. Gustavus C. Doane, the expedition followed the general course of the Cook–Folsom–Peterson Expedition made the ...
Typical Yellowstone lodgepole pine forest in the year 1965. Formal fire record-keeping in Yellowstone began in 1931, when the Heart Lake Fire burned 18,000 acres (73 km 2). Despite its small extent, it was the largest fire in the period from when the park was created until 1988.
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