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The following sortable table comprises the 200 most topographically prominent mountain peaks of the United States of America. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [1] [2]
[b] [c] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of the United States by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [d] [c] The second table below ranks the 50 most prominent summits of the United States. The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance ...
Enlargeable U.S. map with state and territory high points shown as red dots and low points as green squares except where low point is a shoreline. Enlargeable map of the 50 U.S. states by mean elevation. This list includes the topographic elevations of each of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. [1]
The 209 most topographically isolated summits of the United States with at least 500 meters of topographic prominence [6] Rank Mountain Peak State or territory Mountain Range Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Denali [7] [8] [b] Alaska: Alaska Range: 20,310 ft 6190.5 m: 20,146 ft 6141 m: 4,629.37 mi 7,450.24 km
Topographic map of North America. ... Blue Mountain Peak [16] ... United States of America: Denali [25] 6,190 m (20,310 ft) References
The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. [4] [3] The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation. [5] In the United States, only Denali exceeds 6000 meters
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The following list includes links to disambiguation and set index articles for topographic summits of the United States with identical names. The United States Board on Geographic Names is the official authority for all United States geographic names.