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1995–2003. 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. It was established by the 42nd U.S. Congress with the Yellowstone National Park Protection Act and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872.
Discharge. 560 US gallons (2,100 L) per minute. Temperature. 160 °F (70 °C) Depth. 160 feet (50 m) The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world, [3] after Frying Pan Lake in New Zealand and Boiling Lake in Dominica. It is located in the Midway Geyser ...
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 collectively formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control due to drought conditions and increasing winds, combining into several large conflagrations which burned for several ...
More than 10,000 visitors were moved out of Yellowstone National Park after severe floods that washed out roads, destroyed bridges and sent a house into a Yellowstone floods cause 'severe' damage ...
Geographically, Gannett Peak is the apex [clarification needed] of the entire Central Rockies, the largely continuous chain of mountains occupying the states of Wyoming, Idaho and Montana. Named in 1906 for American geographer Henry Gannett, [5] the peak is also the high point of the Wind River Range. The mountain slopes are located in both ...
Mammoth Hot Springs. / 44.96694°N 110.71222°W / 44.96694; -110.71222. Mammoth Hot Springs is a large complex of hot springs on a hill of travertine in Yellowstone National Park adjacent to Fort Yellowstone and the Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District. [3] It was created over thousands of years as hot water from the spring cooled and ...
The Teton–Yellowstone tornado was a rare high-altitude tornado which occurred on July 21, 1987, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. [1] [2] Rated at F4 on the Fujita scale, it remains the strongest tornado ever recorded in the state and the only recorded F4/EF4 tornado in Wyoming history.
Yellowstone National Park, located primarily in the U.S. state of Wyoming, though the park also extends into Montana and Idaho and its Mountains and Mountain Ranges are part of the Rocky Mountains. There are at least 70 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Yellowstone in four mountain ranges. Two of the ranges—The Washburn Range ...