Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of 58 counties of the U.S. State of California by their points of highest elevation. 6 of the 50 highest county high points in the United States are in California. Mount Whitney , located in Inyo and Tulare counties, is the highest point in California as well as the highest point in the contiguous United States at 14,505 feet ...
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [a] of the U.S. State of California. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Located within the White Mountains of Arizona and surrounded by the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Greer is the highest town in the state at an elevation of approximately 8,400 feet (2,600 m). The highest incorporated town in Arizona is Eagar at an elevation of 7,080 feet (2,160 m). Eagar lies 20 minutes northeast of Greer along the New ...
This is a list of cities in the United States by elevation. To be included on the list, a place needs to be an incorporated municipality (i.e. a city, town, or village) and it needs to be at an elevation of 3,000 feet (914 m) or higher. In the United States, settlements above 3,000 feet are found primarily on the High Plains, in the Rocky ...
List of elevation extremes by region; Lists of highest points. List of highest U.S. county high points; List of mountain peaks of the United States. List of the highest major summits of the United States; List of the most prominent summits of the United States; List of the most isolated major summits of the United States; List of highest ...
[b] The highest U.S. county high point is the summit of Denali in the Denali Borough of Alaska, the highest summit of the United States and all of North America. Of these 60 highest county high points, 32 are located in Colorado , seven in California , six each in Alaska and Wyoming , three in New Mexico , two each in Utah and Nevada , and one ...
Mount Whitney is the highest summit of the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States.. This is a complete list of the 12 summits with elevation higher than 14,000 feet (4,267 m) in the U.S. state of California, with at least 300 feet (91.44 meters) of topographic prominence.
[b] This list uses the "mean of extremes" elevation which is the arithmetic mean of the highest and lowest elevations. Lake County, Colorado has the highest U.S. county mean elevation of 11,702 feet (3,567 m). Lake County is the home of Mount Elbert and Mount Massive, the two highest summits of the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada.