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The Beezley Hills are a range of hills, about north of Quincy in Grant County, Washington with a maximum elevation of or .〔 The city of Ephrata, Washington, at the east end of the hills, was originally called Beezley Springs, named after horse rancher Frank Beezley.〔〔 ==Geography== The hills rise from the east bank of the Columbia River between Moses Coulee and Frenchman Gap.〔 They extend about to Ephrata and are part of the geological formation known as the Yakima Fold Belt, a group of anticlines.〔 The next member of the fold belt is the roughly parallel Frenchman Hills to the south. Between the two ridges, Interstate 90 and Washington State Route 28 run through the Quincy Basin (the latter less than south of the Beezley Hills), a rich agricultural and vinicultural area (see Quincy-Columbia Basin Irrigation District).〔 Several springs occur on the lower slopes of the hills. In addition to Ephrata, formerly Beezley Springs (also spelled Beasley Springs), there are Baird Springs, Two Springs, and Willow Springs. The Grant County courthouse in Ephrata is geothermally heated from a hot spring.〔 Monument Hill is the highest point in the Beezley Hills and the second highest summit in Grant County at or .〔〔 The high point of Grant County is a summit () unofficially named , four miles north of Monument Hill and across Lynch Coulee from Monument Hill.〔〔〔 Beezley Hills formed the northern barrier to the ice age Missoula Floods that poured out through Quincy Basin and over Babcock Ridge to reach the sea.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beezley Hills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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