Jordan Valley

English

Etymology

• The city in Oregon, United States is named after prospector Michael M. Jordan.
• The area in Hong Kong is named after Gregory Paul Jordan.

Proper noun

Jordan Valley

1. A city in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.
2. An area in Kwun Tong district, Hong Kong.
   • 1999 June 24, “Flats approved despite gas”, in South China Morning Post‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 September 2023‎^[2]:

     A housing development in Jordan Valley will go ahead despite faultlines and landfill gas, legislators were told yesterday.

   • 2017, Dingxiang Zou, “Geology”, in Theory and Technology of Rock Excavation for Civil Engineering‎^[3], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:

     Two sets of joints intersect at an angle to form a wedge failure on the free face of the blasting bench may cause flyrock due to the reduction of burde. Figure 1.38 shows a flyrock accident in the project of Jordan Valley, Hong Kong, in 2003.

Translations

Translations

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 佐敦谷

Further reading

• Jordan Valley at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.