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Desert Hills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mohave County, Arizona, United States. The population was 2,764 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] up from 2,245 at the 2010 census .
Tumamoc Hill ( O'odham: Cemamagĭ Doʼag) is a butte [ 1] located immediately west of "A" Mountain and downtown Tucson, Arizona. It is home to many radio, television, and public safety transmitters. The 860-acre ecological reserve and U.S. National Historic Landmark was established by the Carnegie Institution in 1903. [ 2]
The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile.Stretching over a 1,600-kilometre-long (1,000-mile) strip of land west of the Andes Mountains, it covers an area of 105,000 km 2 (41,000 sq mi), [2] which increases to 128,000 km 2 (49,000 sq mi) if the barren lower slopes of the Andes are included.
6 miles (9.7 km) The Algodones Dunes is a large sand dune field, or erg, located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of California, near the border with Arizona and the Mexican state of Baja California. The field is approximately 45 miles (72 km) long by 6 miles (9.7 km) wide and extends along a northwest-southeast line that ...
Torpenhow, Cumbria, England, supposedly meaning "hill hill hill", exaggerated into an (unsubstantiated) "Torpenhow Hill = hill-hill-hill hill" for effect; [25] it may only be a single tautology, torpen expressing "the top or breast of a hill" (rather than "hill-hill"), with the tautological addition of Old Norse howe (haugr) "hill". [26]
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About one-third of the land surface of the Earth is arid or semi-arid.
Desert Hills High School ( DHHS) is located in St. George, Utah, United States, and is the second newest of the five St. George 4A public high schools. It is a part of the Washington County School District. Zone: south St. George, Bloomington, Bloomington Hills, Little Valley. Desert Hills High School's nickname is the Thunder and its mascot is ...
Desert Hills, Maricopa County, Arizona, an unincorporated community in Maricopa County, Arizona. Desert Hills (Nevada), a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada. Related names include. Desert Hills High School, a high school in St. George, Utah. Desert Mountains, a mountain range in Lyon and Churchill Counties, Nevada.