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Housing Units (2000): 644
Land area (2000): 1.725796 sq. miles (4.469791 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.725796 sq. miles (4.469791 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51820
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 36.384407 N, 80.469083 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 27041
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Pilot Mountain
Wikipedia
Pilot Mountain, a metamorphic quartzite monadnock rising to a peak above sea level, is one of the most distinctive natural features in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is a remnant of the ancient chain of Sauratown Mountains. The Saura Indians, the region's earliest known inhabitants, called the mountain "Jomeokee", meaning "great guide".
U.S. Route 52 passes through the town of Pilot Mountain near the mountain, and the city of Mount Airy is some miles farther north. Pilot Mountain is part of the A.V.A Yadkin Valley, an American Viticultural Area comprising over 50 wineries, including a few wineries in the town of Pilot Mountain.
Pilot Mountain has two distinctive features, named Big and Little Pinnacle. Big Pinnacle (also called "The Knob") has high and colorful bare rock walls, with a rounded top covered by vegetation, reaching approximately above the surrounding terrain. Visitors can take a paved road to the park visitor center and campgrounds, then up to a parking lot on the ridge. Trails from there allow access to the main Little Pinnacle Overlook and other viewing stations.
Pilot Mountain is part of Pilot Mountain State Park, which extends to the Yadkin River via a corridor of land, and it is associated with nearby Horne Creek Living Historical Farm. The curved depression between the ridge slope to the Little Pinnacle and then to the round knob of the Big Pinnacle gives the entire mountain an even more distinctive shape from a distance. Other interesting rock formations are to the east at privately held Sauratown Mountain, and the higher complex at Hanging Rock State Park.
Pilot Mountain may refer to:
- Pilot Mountain (Alberta), a mountain in the Canadian province of Alberta
- Pilot Mountain (British Columbia), a mountain in the Canadian province of British Columbia
- Pilot Mountain (North Carolina), a mountain in the U.S. state of North Carolina
- Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, a town in the U.S. state of North Carolina
- Pilot Mountain (Yukon), a mountain in the Yukon Territory of Canada
Pilot Mountain is a mountain in the Bow River valley of Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada. It is located southeast of Redearth Creek and directly west of the Trans-Canada Highway.
The mountain was named in 1884 by George M. Dawson, for its location is where the Bow Valley changes direction, thus affording distant views of the mountain all along the valley.
Pilot Mountain can be scrambled on the northwest face by someone with good routefinding skills. Nearby Mount Brett can be ascended from a ridge off the western slopes of Pilot Mountain.
Pilot Mountain is a mountain located northwest of the city limits of Prince George, British Columbia. The mountain top is used as a radio communications site by users including CKPG-TV channel 2.
Usage examples of "pilot mountain".
Here to the west we have this spur of the Pilot mountain range to the south are the Leppy Hills.
The only women in my field of vision who lived otherwise were either the wealthy (in very short supply) who had many servants or the spinster women who taught school most of the year, then spent the penniless summers rocking on their parents' front porch or taking cheap short trips to some sight like Blowing Rock or Pilot Mountain.