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Counties with Largest Area

Showing Gordon MacLeod's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	County	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 5)	Area-SqMi	Ascent Date
1.	CA-Inyo	Mount Whitney	14,495	Mount Whitney Group	10,224	1959-09-06
2.	CA-San Bernardino	San Gorgonio Mountain	11,499	San Bernardino Mountains	20,108	1961-08-20
3.	CA-Riverside	San Jacinto Peak	10,839	San Jacinto Mountains	7,305	1962-08-12
4.	CA-Kern	Sawmill Mountain	8818	San Emigdio Mountains	8,161	1962-09-29
5.	AZ-Yuma	Signal Peak	4877	Kofa Area	5,522	1962-10-21
6.	NV-White Pine	Wheeler Peak	13,063	Snake Range	8,888	1964-10-17
7.	NV-Nye	Mount Jefferson	11,941	Toquima Range	18,147	1964-10-19
8.	AZ-Coconino	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Flagstaff Area	18,659	1965-05-22
9.	NV-Clark	Charleston Peak	11,916	Spring Mountains	8,089	1965-06-12
10.	CA-Siskiyou	Mount Shasta	14,162	Mount Shasta Area	6,338	1965-08-17
11.	CA-Fresno	North Palisade	14,242	Palisades	6,012	1965-09-06
12.	WY-Fremont	Gannett Peak	13,804	Northern Wind River Range	9,249	1966-08-23
13.	NV-Elko	Ruby Dome	11,387	Ruby-East Humboldt Mountains	17,180	1972-05-28
14.	NV-Washoe	Mount Rose	10,776	Carson Range	6,543	1972-08-01
15.	NM-Rio Arriba	Truchas Peak	13,102	Santa Fe Mountains	5,895	1981-08-14
16.	AZ-Yavapai	Mount Union	7979	Prescott Area	8,129	1988-03-22
17.	AZ-Pima	Mount Lemmon	9157	Huachuca Area	9,195	1988-03-25
18.	UT-Tooele	Deseret Peak	11,031	Stansbury Mountains	7,000	1988-08-28
19.	AZ-Mohave	Hualapai Peak	8417	Hualapai Mountains	13,468	1988-11-01
20.	OR-Harney	Steens Mountain	9733	Steens Mountain Area	10,208	1989-07-25
21.	OR-Lake	Crane Mountain	8456	Warner Mountains	8,344	1989-07-27
22.	AZ-Cochise	Chiricahua Peak	9759	Chiricahua Area	6,223	1989-09-28
23.	TX-Brewster	Emory Peak	7825	Big Bend Ranges	6,200	1989-10-11
24.	AZ-Apache	Mount Baldy	11,403	White Mountains	11,218	1990-06-22
25.	NV-Lander	Bunker Hill	11,473	Toiyabe Range	5,514	1992-06-01
26.	UT-San Juan	Mount Peale	12,721	La Sal Mountains	7,929	1992-08-26
27.	NV-Humboldt	Granite Peak	9732	Santa Rosa Mountains	9,644	1996-08-22
28.	NV-Pershing	Star Peak	9836	Southeast Humboldt River Ranges	6,060	1996-08-23
29.	UT-Millard	Mine Camp Peak	10,222	Pavant Range	6,822	1997-07-29
30.	AZ-Gila	Myrtle Point	7960	Mogollon Rim	4,797	1998-06-03
31.	UT-Box Elder	Bull Mountain	9934	Northwest Salt Lake Ranges	5,775	1998-08-17
32.	NV-Lincoln	Mount Grafton-South Ridge	10,640	Schell Creek Range	10,632	2000-08-09
33.	AZ-Navajo	Black Mesa High Point	8168	Hopi-Navajo Mesas	9,959	2004-05-30
34.	WY-Albany	Medicine Bow Peak	12,013	Medicine Bow Mountains	4,303	2007-08-25
	WY-Park	Francs Peak	13,153	Southern Absaroka Range	6,953
	NM-Otero	Sierra Blanca Peak	11,973	Sacramento Mountains	6,631
	MT-Beaverhead	Tweedy Mountain	11,154	Pioneer Mountains	5,559
	NM-Catron	Whitewater Baldy	10,895	Mogollon Mountains	6,931
	NM-Socorro	South Baldy	10,783	West-Central Rio Grande Area	6,651
	WY-Sweetwater	Pine Mountain	9550	East Flaming Gorge Area	10,476
	ID-Idaho	Bare Peak Northwest	9439	Central Bitteroot Range	8,482
	NM-San Juan	Beautiful Mountain	9388	Chuska Mountains	5,537
	OR-Douglas	Mount Thielsen	9182	Crater Lake Area	5,061
	NM-McKinley	Cerros de Alejandro	9166	North San Mateo Mountains	5,455
	ID-Owyhee	Cinnabar Mountain	8403	Owyhee Mountains	7,684
	OR-Malheur	Oregon Canyon Mountains Peak	8027	Trout Creek Area	9,912
	NM-Chaves	One Tree Peak	7089	Sacramento Mountains	6,078
	NE-Cherry	Hazel Benchmark	4206	Sand Hills	6,000
	ME-Aroostook	Peaked Mountain	2220	Northern Maine	6,809
	MN-Saint Louis	Pike Mountain	1950	Northern Minnesota Ranges	6,719

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List Description

This list shows the highest points of the 50 largest counties in the US outside of Alaska. All but four of them are in nine western states. There is one each in Texas, Nebraska, Minnesota, and Maine.

Thanks to John Hasch for suggesting the addition of the Area column, greatly improving the usefulness of this list.

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