The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.. Expansionist competition into the region began in the 18th century, with participants including the Russian Empire, Great …

Southern Pacific 4449, also known as the Daylight, is the only surviving example of Southern Pacific Railroad's "GS-4" class of 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives and one of only two GS-class locomotives surviving, the other being "GS-6" 4460 at the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri.GS is an abbreviation of "General Service" or "Golden …

The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) is a college athletic conference with members located mostly in the western United States, although it now has members as far east as Pennsylvania.The conference participates at the NCAA Division I level, primarily in Olympic sports that are not directly sponsored by a school's home conference (such as the Pac-12 and Big …

Warner Pacific is situated on an 15-acre (0.061 km 2) urban campus on the southern slope of Mount Tabor.Since the 1890s, the park has contained reservoirs that serve the city of Portland, and that are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.The city's drinking water is being transitioned to covered reservoirs at Powell Butte; the transition is scheduled to be …

Arbutus menziesii or Pacific madrone (commonly madrone or madrona in the United States and arbutus in Canada), is a species of broadleaf evergreen tree in the family Ericaceae, native to the western coastal areas of North America, from British Columbia to California.It is nicknamed the "Refrigerator Tree" due to the fact that its bark contains water, and it stays cool in the summer

Pacific County is a county in the U.S. state of Washington.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,365. Its county seat is South Bend, and its largest city is Raymond.The county was formed by the government of Oregon Territory in February 1851 and is named for the Pacific Ocean.. Pacific County is centered on Willapa Bay, a region that provides twenty-five percent of the …

Le vol Pacific Southwest Airlines 1771 est une catastrophe aérienne qui a eu lieu le 7 décembre 1987 dans le comté de San Luis Obispo et qui tua les 43 personnes à bord, dont l'auteur de l'attentat-suicide [1].Le responsable de l'accident venait de se faire licencier de la compagnie USAir, la maison-mère de PSA [2].

The 2021 Pacific hurricane season was a moderately active Pacific hurricane season, with above-average tropical activity in terms of named storms; but featured below-average activity in terms of major hurricanes and a near-normal accumulated cyclone energy (ACE). Five of the season's nineteen named storms made landfall in Mexico, the most since 2018. The season …

Pacific Highway Route information Existed 1913–1926 [a] Major junctions South end San Diego, CA North end Vancouver, BC Location Country United States States California, Oregon, Washington, (also Vancouver in British Columbia) Highway system Auto Trails Pacific Highway is the name of several north–south highways in the Pacific Coast region of the Western United …

The geology of the Pacific Northwest includes the composition (including rock, minerals, and soils), structure, physical properties and the processes that shape the Pacific Northwest region of North America.The region is part of the Ring of Fire: the subduction of the Pacific and Farallon Plates under the North American Plate is responsible for many of the area's scenic features as …

Northwest Coast art is the term commonly applied to a style of art created primarily by artists from Tlingit, Haida, Heiltsuk, Nuxalk, Tsimshian, Kwakwaka'wakw, Nuu-chah-nulth and other First Nations and Native American tribes of the Northwest Coast of North America, from pre-European-contact times up to the present.

The Pacific Coast Ranges (officially gazetted as the Pacific Mountain System in the United States) are the series of mountain ranges that stretch along the West Coast of North America from Alaska south to Northern and Central Mexico.Although they are commonly thought to be the westernmost mountain range of the continental United States and Canada, the geologically …

The Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. It has historically operated in the northwestern United States, but also includes schools in Alaska, Montana, and British Columbia.. The GNAC is the only NCAA conference in any division with a Canadian …

Collectively called the Pacific Islands, the islands in the Pacific Ocean are further categorized into three major groups: Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.Depending on the context, the term Pacific Islands may refer to one of several different concepts: (1) those countries and islands with common Austronesian origins, (2) the islands once (or currently) colonized, or (3) the …