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Steens Mountain is a large fault-block mountain in the northwest United States, located in Harney County, Oregon. Stretching some fifty miles north to south, on its west side it rises from the Alvord Desert at an elevation of about 4,200 feet to 9,738 feet at the summit. Steens Mountain is not part of a mountain range but is properly a single mountain, the …
Steens Mountain is a large fault-block mountain in the northwest United States, located in Harney County, Oregon. Stretching some fifty miles north to south, on its west side it rises from the Alvord Desert at an elevation of about 4,200 feet to 9,738 feet at the summit. Steens Mountain is not part of a mountain range but is properly a single mountain, the largest of Oregon's fault-block mountains.
  • Elevation: 9,738 ft (2,968 m)
  • Location: Harney County, Oregon, U.S.
  • Prominence: 4,373 ft (1,333 m)
  • Listing: Oregon county high points · North America isolated peaks 106th
  • Etymology: Enoch Steen
  • Topo map: USGS Wildhorse Lake
  • Mountain type: Fault-block mountain, volcanic mountain, shield volcano
Data from: en.wikipedia.org