The Frenchman Hills are hills in Grant County, Washington, United States of America. The high point is 1,640 feet (500 m).[1] They are an anticlinal fold in the northeastern part of the larger Yakima Fold Belt.[2] They likely take their name for one of the first non-native residents in the area, who lived near Low Gap in the 1860s and 1870s and was known only as The Frenchman.[3]
Frenchman Gap
Frenchman Gap (47°00′N 120°00′W / 47.0°N 120.0°W) near Vantage, Washington is a water gap where the Columbia River carved a path through the Frenchman Hills.[4]
Grandfather Cuts Loose the Ponies, also known as the Wild Horse Monument, is located on a hillside overlooking the Columbia River on the east side of Frenchman Gap.
References
- ^ "Frenchman Hills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ Lidke, D.J., compiler (2003), "Fault number 561c, Frenchman Hills structures, Folds and other faults of the Frenchman Hills uplift", Quaternary fault and fold database of the United States: U.S. Geological Survey website, United States Geological Survey, retrieved 2014-08-20
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Allread, Ellis Wayne (Spring 1996). "Mid-Twentieth Century Pioneering of the Royal Slope of Central Washington Washington". Central Washington University. p. 5. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
- ^ Stelling, Pete; Tucker, David S. (2007), Floods, Faults, and Fire: Geological Field Trips in Washington State and Southwest British Columbia, Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, p. 218, ISBN 978-0-8137-0009-0