# Factory Hill

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**Factory Hill** el. 9,527 feet (2,904 m) is a mountain peak in the Red Mountains of [Yellowstone National Park](/source/Yellowstone_National_Park). It is directly north of [Mount Sheridan](/source/Mount_Sheridan) and west of the Heart Lake Geyser Basin. Early in the history of Yellowstone, this peak was called *Red Mountain* by the Hayden surveys, a name later transferred to the range in which it resides. In 1885, the Hague Geological Survey gave the peak its present name based on the following passage by [Nathaniel P. Langford](/source/Nathaniel_P._Langford) in his 1871 [Scribner's](/source/Scribner%E2%80%99s_Monthly) account of the [Washburn–Langford–Doane Expedition](/source/Washburn%E2%80%93Langford%E2%80%93Doane_Expedition). Langford's party was camped near the south arm of [Yellowstone Lake](/source/Yellowstone_Lake) at the time.[2]

Factory Hill was so named because the noise and steam proceeding from them resembled in this respect an active factory town.[3]

Through the hazy atmosphere we beheld, on the shore of the inlet opposite our camp, the steam ascending in jets from more than fifty craters [Heart Lake Geyser Basin] giving it much the appearance of a New England factory village.

— Nathaniel P. Langford, Scribner's, February, 1871[4]

## See also

- [Mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National Park](/source/Mountains_and_mountain_ranges_of_Yellowstone_National_Park)

## Notes

1. 1609249. Retrieved 2010-01-20.

1. Whittlesey, Lee (1988). *Yellowstone Place Names*. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press. pp. 53–54. ISBN 0-917298-15-2.

1. Gannett, Henry (1905). [*The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States*](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ). Govt. Print. Off. pp. [123](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n122)

1. Langford, Nathaniel P. (May–June 1871). "The Wonders of the Yellowstone". *Scribner's Monthly*. **II** (1–2): 120.

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