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Housing Units (2000): 326
Land area (2000): 0.867271 sq. miles (2.246222 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.867271 sq. miles (2.246222 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57656
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.623573 N, 90.643696 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Pilot Knob
Wikipedia
Pilot Knob can refer to:
- Pilot Knob, California, Butterfield Overland Mail stage station named for the nearby Pilot Knob (Imperial County, California), and the former name of Araz, California.
- Pilot Knob, Indiana, unincorporated place
- Pilot Knob, Missouri, town
- Pilot Knob, Texas, unincorporated place
- Pilot Knob, Wisconsin, a ghost town
- One of 103 summits within the United States, including:
- Pilot Knob (Austin, Texas)
- Pilot Knob (Imperial County, California), a California mountain, southwest of Fort Yuma and Yuma, Arizona, west of the Colorado River.
- Pilot Knob (Colorado), a high mountain summit in Colorado, U.S.
- Pilot Knob (Iron County, Missouri), Iron, Missouri
- Pilot Knob State Nature Preserve, Powell County, Kentucky
- Pilot Knob Mountain, a tank gunnery range at Fort Hood, Texas
Pilot Knob is the eroded core of an extinct volcano located south of central Austin, Texas, near Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and McKinney Falls State Park.
Pilot Knob is located in the Arcadia Valley of Iron County, Missouri between the towns of Ironton, Missouri and Pilot Knob, Missouri. Pilot Knob, so named because of its distinctive shape and prominent position, reaches an elevation of rising above the Arcadia Valley floor and has a large deposit of iron ore in its upper regions. Pilot Knob in one peak in the St. Francois Mountains.
The mountain was heavily mined in the 19th century, leaving many open mine shafts. The summit of the mountain consists of the Pilot Knob National Wildlife Refuge which is the home for nearly of the world's population of Indiana bats. The bats hibernate in the abandoned mine shafts. Pilot Knob Ore Company donated the land, after ceasing its mining operations, on July 22, 1987, for conservation purposes. Currently the Pilot Knob National Wildlife Refuge is closed to the public to protect habitat for the endangered Indiana bat. Also there is an eight-foot-tall (2.44 meters) chain link fence around of the land for safety reasons, keeping individuals away from the open mine shafts.
Pilot Knob (also, Avie Quah-la-Altwa, Ha-bee-co-la-la, and San Pablo) is a peak in Imperial County, California. Pilot Knob is located southeast of Ogilby, It rises to an elevation of . Pilot Knob is a rocky landform, geologically a Volcanic plug, west of Yuma, Arizona– Winterhaven, California; it is connected to the Cargo Muchacho Mountains, the central portion of the mountains being about north. Pilot Knob was named for its prominence as a landmark for riverboat traffic in the 19th-20th centuries on the Colorado River which borders Winterhaven–Yuma.
Usage examples of "pilot knob".
I reviewed in my mind all that had happened since I'd turned off the freeway onto the winding road that led to Pilot Knob and I asked a lot of questions about all the things that had happened after that, but there seemed no ready answers.
I 'can't see, for the life of me, what's wrong with the kind of service we been giving the folks of Pilot Knob for the last hundred years or so.
Below them to the front and right, three Dakota County sheriffs cars were pounding up Pilot Knob Road from the south.
When I crossed the low, rocky ridge, I could see Pilot Knob against the sky.
What should you say, sir, to a city, built up like the rod of Aladdin had touched it, built up in two years, where now you wouldn't expect it any more than you'd expect a light-house on the top of Pilot Knob?