Frenchman Hills

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 Hills
Geography
CountryUnited States
StateWashington
CountyGrant County
Range coordinates46°58′29″N 119°49′20″W

Frenchman Gap

Frenchman Gap (47.0°N 120.0°W / 47.0; -120.0 (Frenchman Gap)) 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
  1. "Frenchman Hills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. 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)
  3. 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.
  4. 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
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