Owyhee Mountains (Idaho and Or.)

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Name (Latin)
Owyhee Mountains (Idaho and Or.)
Other forms of name
Owyhee Range (Idaho and Or.)
Owyhee Upland (Idaho and Or.)
Ruby Mountains (Idaho and Or.)
Silver City Range (Idaho and Or.)
Silver Mountains (Idaho and Or.)
Coordinates
-116.659 -116.659 42.9808 42.9808 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Mountains Idaho
Mountains Oregon
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata: Q7115010
Library of congress: sh 95010878
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: A survey of the herpetofauna of Bruneau Resource Area, Boise District ... 1994:
  • GNIS [CF] : Geographic Names Information System, 1993
  • Place-name-index [CF], c1991
  • GeoRef
Wikipedia description:

The Owyhee Mountains are a mountain range in Owyhee County, Idaho and Malheur County, Oregon. Mahogany Mountain and the associated volcanic craters of the Lake Owyhee volcanic field are in the Owyhee Mountains of Oregon just east of the Owyhee Reservoir on the Owyhee River. The southeastern end of the range including the old mining area west of Silver City is referred to as the Silver City Range. About 8.3 kilometres (5.2 mi) west of Silver City is the De Lamar ghost town in Jordan Creek below the mine workings on De Lamar Mountain to the south. The area was active in the late 1880s. In the 1970s mining began again with the development of open pit silver–gold mines on De Lamar Mountain.

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