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Land area (2000): 5.340473 sq. miles (13.831761 sq. km)
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Total area (2000): 5.340473 sq. miles (13.831761 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54228
Located within: Kentucky (KY), FIPS 21
Location: 38.045982 N, 85.554676 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 40047
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Mount Washington
Wikipedia
Mount Washington, called Agiocochook by some Native American tribes, is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at and the most prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River.
The mountain is notorious for its erratic weather. On the afternoon of April 12, 1934, the Mount Washington Observatory recorded a windspeed of at the summit, the world record for most of the 20th century, and still a record for measured wind speeds not involved with a tropical cyclone.
The mountain is located in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains, in the township of Sargent's Purchase, Coös County, New Hampshire. While nearly the whole mountain is in the White Mountain National Forest, an area of surrounding and including the summit is occupied by Mount Washington State Park.
The Mount Washington Cog Railway ascends the western slope of the mountain, and the Mount Washington Auto Road climbs to the summit from the east. The mountain is popular with hikers (the Appalachian Trail crosses the summit). Other common activities include glider flying, and annual cycle and running races such as the Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb and Road Race.
Mount Washington is a deeply eroded shield volcano in the Cascade Range of Oregon. The mountain dates to the Late Pleistocene. However, it does have a line of basaltic andesite spatter cones on its northeast flank which are approximately 1,330 years old according to carbon dating. The main peak is a volcanic plug that was heavily eroded by glaciers in the last ice age.
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Mount Washington is a peak in the Olympic Mountains of Washington state. The mountain is in the Mount Skokomish Wilderness.
Mount Washington is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's south city area. It has a zip code of 15211 and has representation on Pittsburgh City Council by both the council members for District 3 (Central South Neighborhoods) and District 2 (West Neighborhoods).
It is known for its steep hill overlooking the Pittsburgh skyline, which was rated the most beautiful vista in America by USA Weekend (and the best urban vista); its funiculars, the Duquesne and Monongahela Inclines, which are the oldest continuous inclines in the world; and for the row of upscale restaurants paralleling the crest of Mount Washington, the hill upon which the community sits. The neighborhood is also known as the home of Autumn House Press, one of the leading literary publishers in the United States.
Mount Washington is a mountain on the eastern edge of the Vancouver Island Ranges of British Columbia and the site of the popular Mount Washington Alpine Resort. It is located approximately from the Comox Valley.
The mountain was named after Rear Admiral John Washington, official Hydrographer, British Royal Navy, by Captain George Richards while charting the West Coast in the 1860s.
In the summer, Mount Washington has many trails for mountain bikers, and offers scenic chair lifts and hiking trails to visitors.
Mount Washington is home to the Vancouver Island marmot, one of the planet's most endangered mammals. Found in the wild only on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, the Vancouver Island marmot differs significantly from other marmot species. In an effort to increase Vancouver Island marmot populations, the Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Foundation has established captive breeding facilities across Canada. The largest of these is the Tony Barrett Marmot Recovery Centre located on Mount Washington.
The following broadcasting stations have their transmitter sites on the east face of Mount Washington, facing out over the Comox Valley and Campbell River:
- CKLR-FM, 97.3 MHz
- CFCP-FM, 98.9 MHz
- CHAN-TV-4, channel 11
- CHEK-TV-5, channel 13
Several amateur radio repeaters are also located on Mount Washington.
Mount Washington is a small mountain in the US state of Washington roughly east-southeast of Seattle, Washington along Interstate 90. It lies on the western margin of the Cascade Range just above the coastal plains around Puget Sound, and is southwest of nearby town of North Bend.
Once known as Profile Mountain, Mount Washington was named due to a cliff resembling a profile of George Washington when viewed from an angle.
The hike to the top of Mt. Washington is known for its view.
Cedar Butte lies at the west end of the mountain.
The Mt. Washington Light Rail Stop is one of 33 stops on the Baltimore Light Rail and is the northern-most stop inside the city of Baltimore. The stop is located in historic Mt. Washington Village, and is accessible to motor vehicles only along narrow, one way side streets.
Mount Washington is a mountain in White Pine County in the state of Nevada. The mountain climbs to an elevation of and is in Great Basin National Park.
Land near the summit and adjoining the national park was purchased in 2001 by The Long Now Foundation as a potential site for the Clock of the Long Now. The announcement of the land purchase was made at Baker, the gateway town of the national park, and in nearby Ely, Nevada at a gathering of White Pine County officials sponsored by Ely's Economic Diversification Council. The property was described as made up of eleven patented mining claims dating back to 1916.
Usage examples of "mount washington".
She remembered that they had taken her for a ride on the Cog Railway up Mount Washington for her eighth birthday and the altitude had caused a bloody nose and they had been angry with her.
Ken Rancourt, director of research, Mount Washington Observatory, Gorham, New Hampshire.
And I have no doubt, had you been here, the garrison of Mount Washington would now have composed a part of this army.
After all, I heard Elaine okay when she was half a mile away on Mount Washington that first time, and later she could hear me when we were a couple hundred yards apart.
Anyway, the highest wind speed ever recorded anywhere on earth was logged on the top of Mount Washington in April 1934 when a gust of-pencils ready?
My plan was to climb to the summit of Mount Washington by way of the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail, a picturesque but steep route lying south of the cog tracks.
After taking an awesome triple-humper that was as high as Mount Washington, he reared back and pulled a triumphant wheelie and saw the whirling spikes flash above his head in the light of the moon, clean and sharp and deadly and ready for any opponent rash enough to threaten him for the lead.
We were perched upon the extreme summit of the great range of the Rocky Mountains, toward which we had been climbing, patiently climbing, ceaselessly climbing, for days and nights together--and about us was gathered a convention of Nature's kings that stood ten, twelve, and even thirteen thousand feet high--grand old fellows who would have to stoop to see Mount Washington, in the twilight.
As she stared hard at it, she finally made out the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, converging to make the Ohio, meaning she was on Mount Washington, not far from Oilcan's apartment—.
Eventually it swung north and east for a while before turning west and then south again, like a long U around an outthrust ridge of the mountains that reared ever higher to Three Fingered Jack on the north and Mount Washington to the south.
Outside this canyon you could see the snow peaks eastward-Mount Washington best of all, and sometimes Mount Hood tiny to the north-but down here where the stream had cut its way into walls of basalt the world closed in, with rock walls, falling water, and dense growth.