title: Quartz Mountain (Douglas County, Oregon)
text: # Quartz Mountain (Douglas County, Oregon)
  
  Quartz Mountain is a located 35 miles (56 km) east of Roseburg in Douglas County, Oregon, United States. Located within the Jackson Creek subbasin, a tributary of the South Umpqua River, Quartz Mountain rises to an elevation of 5,200 feet (1,585 m) in the Umpqua National Forest. It has a large deposit of high-purity silica.
  
  The summit was the site of a Forest Service lookout tower until it was removed in 1970.
  
  