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Boundary Peak is the highest summit in the U.S. State of Nevada. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [Notes 1] of the U.S. State of Nevada. 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.
This is a list of highest points in the U.S. state of Nevada, in alphabetical order by county.. All elevations use the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), the currently accepted vertical control datum for United States, Canada and Mexico.
Mount Charleston, including Charleston Peak (Nuvagantu, literally "where snow sits", in Southern Paiute [5] or Nüpakatütün in Shoshoni [6]) at 11,916 feet (3,632 m), [7] is the highest mountain in both the Spring Mountains and Clark County, in Nevada, United States. It is the eighth-highest mountain in the state. [8]
While it is the highest point in Nevada, the considerably taller Montgomery Peak (13,441 feet or 4,097 metres) is less than 1 mi (1.6 km) away, across the state line in California. By most definitions Boundary Peak, which has a prominence of only 253 ft (77 m), is considered to be a sub-peak of Montgomery Peak.
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak of the United States and North America. ... Wind River Peak ... Nevada: Spring Mountains: 11,916 ft 3632 m: 8,258 ft
Denali in Alaska is the highest mountain peak in North America. ... Wind River Peak ... Kuna Peak California: Sierra Nevada: 13,009 ft 3965 m: 1,923 ft
Gannett Peak, highest summit of the Wind River Range, the Central Rocky Mountains, and the State of Wyoming Garfield Peak Grand Teton , highest summit of the Teton Range and the westernmost 4000 meter peak of the Rocky Mountains
The state's lowest point is along the Colorado River, south of Laughlin. Nevada has 172 mountain summits with 2,000 feet (610 m) of prominence. Nevada ranks second in the United States by the number of mountains, behind Alaska, and ahead of California, Montana, and Washington. [2]