Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 555
Land area (2000): 7.340588 sq. miles (19.012035 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.340588 sq. miles (19.012035 sq. km)
FIPS code: 17811
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 29.655660 N, 98.659388 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Cross Mountain
Wikipedia
Cross Mountain may refer to:
- Cross Mountain (Arizona)
- Cross Mountain (California)
- Cross Mountain (Colorado)
- Cross Mountain (Montana)
- Cross Mountain (Pennsylvania)
- Cross Mountain (Tennessee), site of the Cross Mountain Mine disaster
- Cross Mountain, Texas
Cross Mountain is the highest peak in the Bear Pond Mountains, a sub range of the Appalachian Mountains. This grouping of mountains straddle the Maryland and Pennsylvania border.
Cross Mountain and Hearthstone Mountain which is on the Maryland side, form a unique geologic formation known as the "Punchbowl". This feature was created by the weathered shales of the Ordovician age in the center of a south-plunging anticline, having been eroded to expose a large amphitheater like feature (punchbowl). Cross and Hearthstone Mountain are made of hard resistant quartzite of the Tuscarora Formation of the Silurian age.
Cross Mountain is also the site of a deactivated microwave relay station, that was used during the Cold War. The unit was encased in a 103 ft. tower, and known as the "Cannonball" site 2. The site was closed in 1977. Access to the summit is still restricted.