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The Eagle Mountains are located in northeastern
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, U.S.


Geography

The range lies to the north of
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off County Route R2 (California) and west— and southwest of the Coxcomb Mountains. They are the location of Eagle Mountain, the
Kaiser Steel Kaiser Steel was a steel company and integrated steel mill near Fontana, California. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser founded the company on December 1, 1941, and workers fired up the plant's first blast furnace, named "Big Bess" after Kaiser's ...
Eagle Mountain iron mine's
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, and one of the largest open pit iron ore mines, now closed, in the country. The Eagle Mountains lie partly within eastern
Joshua Tree National Park Joshua Tree National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, US National Park located in southeastern California, straddling north-central Riverside County, California, Riverside County and part of southern San Bernardino County, ...
. The mountains reach an elevation of inside the park, at the western end of the range near Cottonwood Pass. They are in the
Colorado Desert The Colorado Desert is a part of the larger Sonoran Desert located in California, United States, and Baja California, Mexico. It encompasses approximately , including the heavily irrigated Coachella, Imperial and Mexicali valleys. It is home to ...
region of the
Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert () is a hot desert and ecoregion in North America that covers the northwestern Mexican states of Sonora, Baja California, and Baja California Sur, as well as part of the Southwestern United States (in Arizona and California). It ...
, approaching the transition to the higher
Mojave Desert The Mojave Desert (; ; ) is a desert in the rain shadow of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains and Transverse Ranges in the Southwestern United States. Named for the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous Mohave people, it is located pr ...
at coordinates .


See also

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List of Sonoran Desert wildflowers The wildflowers of the Sonoran Desert typically appear after a rain, some after the winter rains, and some after the summer "monsoons." ''Amsinckia menziesii'' * Common name: common fiddleneck * Flowers bloom March through May Image:Amsinckia i ...
* List of flora of the Sonoran Desert Region by common name *
North American desert flora North is one of the four compass points or cardinal directions. It is the opposite of south and is perpendicular to east and west. ''North'' is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. Etymology The word ''north'' is ...
* Joshua Tree National Park wiki-index *
Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...
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Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher t ...
*
Protected areas of the Mojave Desert Protection is any measure taken to guard something against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although ...
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Protected areas of the Colorado Desert Protection is any measure taken to guard something against damage caused by outside forces. Protection can be provided to physical objects, including organisms, to systems, and to intangible things like civil and political rights. Although ...


References


External links


Official Joshua Tree National Park website


Mountain ranges of the Mojave Desert Mountain ranges of the Colorado Desert Mountain ranges of Riverside County, California Mountain ranges of Southern California Joshua Tree National Park Protected areas of the Colorado Desert Protected areas of Riverside County, California {{RiversideCountyCA-geo-stub