Chanticleer Point

Chanticleer Point (HM25I2)

Location: Corbett, OR 97019 Multnomah County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 32.077', W 122° 15.63'

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Crafted by Cataclysms

There is much of legend and tradition associated with the Columbia River and its gorge.
The geologic story is neither fable, myth nor tradition, but one of fact, facts that independently stand out in every rock and waterfall, as if begging for recognition.

Ira A. Williams
Geologist, 1916


Geologists tell us the Cascade Range formed 35 million years ago as plates of the Earth's crust collided.
Then, 20 million years ago, molten basalt gushing from cracks near the Idaho border covered 80,000 square miles and shifted the Columbia River north to its present location.


During the last Ice Age, melting ice dams in Montana released massive floods that scoured this canyon perhaps 100 times - waters so high, they surged over the top of Crown Point.
Helped by these floods, the Columbia cut through layers of stone faster than her smaller tributaries, treating the greatest concentration of high waterfalls in North America.

Lava no longer flows to laminate this landscape, and the Ice Age is long past, but the Gorge remains dynamic.
Landslides continue to move mountains, and tiny crystalline droplets caught by winter's freeze, crack the cliffs etching another season into the Columbia's Gorge.
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HM NumberHM25I2
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Date Added Wednesday, February 14th, 2018 at 10:01pm PST -08:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)10T E 557739 N 5042608
Decimal Degrees45.53461667, -122.26050000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 32.077', W 122° 15.63'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 32' 4.6199999999999" N, 122° 15' 37.8" W
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Area Code(s)503
Which side of the road?Marker is on the right when traveling West
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Rooster Rock Rd, Corbett OR 97019, US
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