Name: Barlow Peak

 

County: Teton

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1102238W

Latitude: 441058N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 9613/2930

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Peak in Yellowstone Park, named by the United States Geological Survey for Capt. J. W. Barlow, Engineer Corps, United States Army.

Source: Gannett

 

Peak, altitude 9,300 feet, Yellowstone National Park, ... . Named by the United States Geological Survey, 1895 for Capt. J. W. Barlow who was the leader of the military expedition of 1871, which traveled with the Hayden party, and recording many discoveries, went around Yellowstone Lake.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

 

Named by the USGS in 1895 for Captain J.W. Barlow, who was leader of the military expedition of 1871. Barlow mapped the headwaters of the Snake River, and made a remarkable collection of photographs of great value which were destroyed in the great fire in Chicago.  

Source: WPA

 

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History:

Captain J. W. Barlow of the United States Engineers Corps, was in charge of one division of the expedition of Dr. Hayden in 1871. Captain Barlow's collection of photographs, letters, etc. was destroyed in the great Chicago fire of that year, but the report was rewritten for the Chicago Journal and appeared in the issue of that paper for January 13, 1872. Barlow Peak was named for the Captain.

Source: Campbell 

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Mount Hancock

 

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