Cottonwood Hill

Cottonwood Hill is a peak in Washington, Utah and has an elevation of 3,245 feet. Cottonwood Hill is situated nearby to the locality Harrisburg Junction, as well as near Yellow Top.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Quail Creek State Park and Harrisburg.

Quail Creek State Park

Park

Photo: Fredlyfish4, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Quail Creek State Park is a state park of Utah, United States, featuring a 600-acre reservoir. The park is located within Hurricane, Utah, 9 miles west of the city center and 1.5 miles south of the historic ghost town of Harrisburg.

Harrisburg

Ruins

Photo: The Utahraptor, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Harrisburg is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States. Established as Harrisville in 1859, the town was flooded by the Virgin River in 1862, causing the residents to move farther up Quail Creek.

Purgatory Correctional Facility

Prison

Purgatory Correctional Facility is the county jail of Washington County, Utah. Also known as the Washington County Jail, it is located near St. George, Utah, at Purgatory Flats, hence its unusual name.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Leeds and Silver Reef.

Leeds

Village

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Leeds is a town in Washington County, Utah, United States. The population was 864 at the 2020 census.

Silver Reef

Hamlet

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Silver Reef is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States, about 15 miles northeast of St. George and 1 mile west of Leeds. John Kemple, a prospector from Nevada, discovered a vein of silver in a sandstone formation in 1866. Silver Reef is situated 5 miles northeast of Cottonwood Hill.

Cottonwood Hill

Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,245 feet
Category: landform
Location: Washington, Utah, Southwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.19082° or 37° 11′ 27″ north

Longitude

-113.41134° or 113° 24′ 41″ west

Elevation

3,245 feet (989 metres)

Open location code

85985HRQ+8F

OpenStreetMap ID

node 356675537

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

5537446

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