What is "point of rocks"

Point of Rocks, in Morton County, Kansas, was one of three landmarks by the same name on the Santa Fe Trail. This one was on the Cimarron cutoff. It is now part of Cimarron National Grassland.

Point of Rocks has been an important landmark for travellers to this region of Kansas. It signifies the closeness of springs and thus water. Many springs are known to exist in the region of the Cimarron River near Point of Rocks. Because of this, Point of Rocks was an important landmark for travelers heading west on the Cimarron Cutoff and for modern day ranchers. Point of Rocks is the 3rd Highest Point in the state of Kansas with the elevation at its summit being .

Point of Rocks is a point of mountain range, as yet unnamed, that projects into the bed of the Mojave River in San Bernardino County, California. This range of mountains runs south to north along the east side of the Mojave River between Oro Grande and the mountain that Point of Rocks is a part, a mile northeast of Helendale.

Point of Rocks may refer to:

In the United States (sorted by state):

• Point of Rocks (California), a promontory in San Bernardino County, California
• Point of Rocks (Kansas), a promontory landmark on the Santa Fe Trail
• Point of Rocks (Kern County, California), a mountain range in Kern County
• Point of Rocks, Maryland, a town on the Potomac River
• Point of Rocks (MARC station), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in Frederick County, Maryland
• Point of Rocks Historic District, a promontory landmark on the Santa Fe Trail, listed on the NRHP in Colfax County, New Mexico
• Point of Rocks (Sierra County, New Mexico), landmark along the Jornada del Muerto
• Point of Rocks (Chester, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Chesterfield County, Virginia
• Point of Rocks (Texas), an isolated hill with a spring, a watering place on the San Antonio - El Paso Road, 10 miles west of Fort Davis, Texas, now a roadside park
• Point of Rocks, Wyoming, an unincorporated community in Sweetwater County
• Point of Rocks Stage Station, listed on the NRHP in Sweetwater County, Wyoming

Point of Rocks is a mountain range in Kern County, California.

Its sandstone peaks were a landmark for travelers crossing the Antelope Valley on El Camino Viejo and a guide to the water to be found on their heights, at Las Tinajas de Los Indios.

Nearby to the southeast is the location of the Point of Rocks oilfield. The deepest oil well drilled in California was here in 1987. Its total depth: 24426 feet.

Point of Rocks is a historic plantation house located near Chester, Chesterfield County, Virginia. It was built about 1840, and is a one-story, three-bay, double pile dwelling with weatherboard siding and a low-pitched hipped standing seam metal roof in the Greek Revival style. Also on the property is a contributing garage. The property was the location of a Union military observation point and headquarters for General Benjamin F. Butler and hospital established in 1864 during the Bermuda Hundred Campaign of the American Civil War.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Point of Rocks is a hill and a locale in Jeff Davis County, Texas. Point of Rocks, an isolated hill with a spring, was used as a watering place and campsite on the San Antonio-El Paso Road, 10 miles west of Fort Davis, Texas, now Point of Rocks Roadside Park. The elevation of Point of Rocks Spring, is at 5,469 feet / 1,667 meters, at the foot of the southeast slope of the Point of Rocks that reaches over 5,920 feet along its crest.