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Pennsylvania County High Points

Rank	County	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 5)
1.	Somerset	Mount Davis	3213	Northern Allegheny Mountains
2.	Bedford	Blue Knob	3120	Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains
3.	Fayette	Laurel Hill	2994	Laurel Highlands
4.	Westmoreland	Laurel Hill-Radio Tower	2980	Laurel Highlands
5.	Blair	Schaefer Head	2950	Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains
6.	Cambria	Cambria County High Point	2862	Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains
7.	Susquehanna	Elk Hill	2680	Northeastern Pennsylvania
8.	Wayne	Mount Ararat	2656	Northeastern Pennsylvania
9.	Centre	Centre County High Point	2630	Central Pennsylvania Allegheny Mountains
10.	Sullivan	North Mountain	2585	Northern Allegheny Plateau
11.	Potter	Lyon Hill	2580	Northern Allegheny Plateau
12.	Tioga	Cedar Mountain	2543	Northern Allegheny Plateau
13.	Luzerne	Cherry Ridge	2460	Northern Allegheny Plateau
13.	McKean	McKean County High Point	2460	Northern Allegheny Plateau
15.	Franklin	Tuscarora Mountain	2458	Southern Pennsylvania Ridges
15.	Fulton	Tuscarora Mountain	2458	Southern Pennsylvania Ridges
17.	Bradford	Armenia Mountain	2440	Northern Allegheny Plateau
18.	Columbia	Red Rock Mountain-West Slope	2420	Northern Allegheny Plateau
19.	Clearfield	Chestnut Ridge	2405	Northern Allegheny Plateau
20.	Huntingdon	Greenlee Mountain	2400	Central Pennsylvania Ridges
21.	Wyoming	Bartlett Mountain	2380	Northern Allegheny Plateau
21.	Cameron	Cameron County High Point	2380	Northern Allegheny Plateau
21.	Lycoming	Lycoming County High Point	2380	Northern Allegheny Plateau
24.	Elk	Wildwood Fire Tower	2376	Northern Allegheny Plateau
25.	Clinton	Clinton County High Point	2375	Northern Allegheny Plateau
26.	Mifflin	Broad Mountain	2340	Central Pennsylvania Ridges
27.	Lackawanna	Moosic Mountains High Point	2323	Pocono Plateau
28.	Cumberland	Blue Mountain-Perry/Cumberland High Point	2270	Blue Mountain
28.	Perry	Blue Mountain-Perry/Cumberland High Point	2270	Blue Mountain
30.	Warren	Warren County High Point	2231	Northern Allegheny Plateau
31.	Juniata	Shade Mountain	2228	Southern Pennsylvania Ridges
32.	Monroe	Kistler Ledge	2215	Pocono Plateau
33.	Carbon	Lake Mountain	2180	Pocono Plateau
33.	Snyder	Shade Mountain-Snyder County High Point	2180	Central Pennsylvania Ridges
35.	Indiana	Chestnut Ridge-North Section	2160	Laurel Highlands
35.	Jefferson	Jefferson County High Point	2160	Northern Allegheny Plateau
35.	Union	Jones Mountain	2160	Central Pennsylvania Ridges
38.	Pike	Pike County High Point	2115	Pocono Plateau
39.	Schuylkill	Bear's Head	2094	Anthracite Ridges
40.	Adams	East Big Flat Ridge	2060	South Mountain-Catoctin
41.	Forest	Forest County High Point	1954	Northern Allegheny Plateau
42.	Crawford	Crawford County High Point	1913	Northern Allegheny Plateau
43.	Clarion	McNaughton Hill	1901	Northern Allegheny Plateau
44.	Erie	Erie County High Point	1900	Northern Allegheny Plateau
45.	Northumberland	Boyers Knob	1780	Anthracite Ridges
46.	Dauphin	Big Lick Mountain	1771	Anthracite Ridges
47.	Venango	Venango County High Point	1755	Northern Allegheny Plateau
48.	Armstrong	Armstrong County High Point	1740	Northern Allegheny Plateau
49.	Northampton	Blue Mountain-Northampton County High Point	1695	Blue Mountain
50.	Berks	Blue Mountain-Berks County High Point	1680	Blue Mountain
51.	Lehigh	Blue Mountain-Lehigh County High Point	1674	Blue Mountain
52.	Greene	Greene County High Point	1660	Southern Allegheny Plateau
53.	Lebanon	Stony Mountain	1651	Anthracite Ridges
54.	Mercer	Mercer County High Point	1621	Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
55.	Butler	Kelley Benchmark	1600	Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
56.	Washington	Washington County High Point	1572	Southern Allegheny Plateau
57.	Lawrence	Lawrence County High Point	1440	Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
58.	York	Stone Head North	1412	South Mountain-Catoctin
59.	Allegheny	Allegheny County High Point	1400	Northern Allegheny Plateau
60.	Beaver	Big Knob	1383	Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
61.	Montour	Montour Ridge-Northeast Slope	1380	Northern Allegheny Plateau
62.	Lancaster	Lancaster County High Point	1180	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills
63.	Chester	Welsh Mountain	1080	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills
64.	Bucks	Flint Hill-Northeast Slope	970	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills
65.	Montgomery	Mill Hill	700	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills
66.	Delaware	Delaware County High Point	500	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills
67.	Philadelphia	Chestnut Hill	441	Southeast Pennsylvania Hills

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List Description

Acknowledgments

Sources that were used to help me compile this list include:

About 30 of these points I determined by personal research done prior to 1990.
Book County High Points by Andy Martin; list compiled 1993 by Andy Martin, reviewed by Michael Schwartz.

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