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The following is a list of the mountains and hills of Arizona, ordered by height.. Entries in bold indicate the peak is the highest point in its respective county.. Entries with a † indicate the peak has a low topographic prominence and may be considered a subpeak to a higher nearby summit.
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first table below ranks the 20 highest major summits of Arizona by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.
Arizona is also one of the Four Corners states and is diagonally adjacent to Colorado. Arizona has a total area of 113,998 square miles (295,253 km 2), making it the sixth largest U.S. state. [1] Of this area, just 0.3% consists of water, which makes Arizona the state with the second lowest percentage of water area (New Mexico is the lowest at ...
The southeast of Arizona, with New Mexico, northwest Chihuahua and northeast Sonora contain insular sky island mountain ranges, (the Madrean Sky Islands), or smaller subranges in association. There are also numerous Sonoran Desert ranges, or Arizona transition zone ranges. Northern and northeast Arizona also has scattered ranges throughout.
In addition to matching the Topozone URL's, the website offers free download of GeoTIFFs, which Topozone had only offered for a premium. TopoQuest started adding Canadian 1:50K scale topographic maps in July 2008, and USGS 1:100K and 1:250K scale topographic maps in March 2009.
Brittlebush blooming near the base of Piestewa Peak. The nearly 1.7 billion year (1.7 Gya) history of the formation of the Phoenix Mountains is defined by distinctive episodes intensive submarine volcanism and orogeny in the Proterozoic, erosion in the Mesozoic, and lastly, Basin and Range development.
The Sevenmile Mountains are a mountain range in central Gila County in the U.S. state of Arizona. [2] [3] The range has a maximum elevation of 6,629 ft (2,021 m) and a prominence of 989 ft (301 m). [1] [3] The highest peak is labelled Seven on the USGS topo sheet [4] and has a topographic isolation of 13.35 miles (21 km). [1]
The White Tank Mountains are a mountain range in Maricopa County, Arizona. The mountains are on the western periphery of the Phoenix metropolitan area, primarily flanked by the suburban cities of Buckeye to the southwest, and Surprise to the northeast. The mountain range is home to the White Tank Mountain Regional Park and is a regional ...