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Counties with Largest Area

Rank	County	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 5)	Area-SqMi
1.	CA-Inyo	Mount Whitney	14,495	Mount Whitney Group	10,224
2.	CA-Fresno	North Palisade	14,242	Palisades	6,012
3.	CA-Siskiyou	Mount Shasta	14,162	Mount Shasta Area	6,338
4.	WY-Fremont	Gannett Peak	13,804	Northern Wind River Range	9,249
5.	WY-Park	Francs Peak	13,153	Southern Absaroka Range	6,953
6.	NM-Rio Arriba	Truchas Peak	13,102	Santa Fe Mountains	5,895
7.	NV-White Pine	Wheeler Peak	13,063	Snake Range	8,888
8.	UT-San Juan	Mount Peale	12,721	La Sal Mountains	7,929
9.	AZ-Coconino	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Flagstaff Area	18,659
10.	WY-Albany	Medicine Bow Peak	12,013	Medicine Bow Mountains	4,303
11.	NM-Otero	Sierra Blanca Peak	11,973	Sacramento Mountains	6,631
12.	NV-Nye	Mount Jefferson	11,941	Toquima Range	18,147
13.	NV-Clark	Charleston Peak	11,916	Spring Mountains	8,089
14.	CA-San Bernardino	San Gorgonio Mountain	11,499	San Bernardino Mountains	20,108
15.	NV-Lander	Bunker Hill	11,473	Toiyabe Range	5,514
16.	AZ-Apache	Mount Baldy	11,403	White Mountains	11,218
17.	NV-Elko	Ruby Dome	11,387	Ruby-East Humboldt Mountains	17,180
18.	MT-Beaverhead	Tweedy Mountain	11,154	Pioneer Mountains	5,559
19.	UT-Tooele	Deseret Peak	11,031	Stansbury Mountains	7,000
20.	NM-Catron	Whitewater Baldy	10,895	Mogollon Mountains	6,931
21.	CA-Riverside	San Jacinto Peak	10,839	San Jacinto Mountains	7,305
22.	NM-Socorro	South Baldy	10,783	West-Central Rio Grande Area	6,651
23.	NV-Washoe	Mount Rose	10,776	Carson Range	6,543
24.	NV-Lincoln	Mount Grafton-South Ridge	10,640	Schell Creek Range	10,632
25.	UT-Millard	Mine Camp Peak	10,222	Pavant Range	6,822
26.	UT-Box Elder	Bull Mountain	9934	Northwest Salt Lake Ranges	5,775
27.	NV-Pershing	Star Peak	9836	Southeast Humboldt River Ranges	6,060
28.	AZ-Cochise	Chiricahua Peak	9759	Chiricahua Area	6,223
29.	OR-Harney	Steens Mountain	9733	Steens Mountain Area	10,208
30.	NV-Humboldt	Granite Peak	9732	Santa Rosa Mountains	9,644
31.	WY-Sweetwater	Pine Mountain	9550	East Flaming Gorge Area	10,476
32.	ID-Idaho	Bare Peak Northwest	9439	Central Bitteroot Range	8,482
33.	NM-San Juan	Beautiful Mountain	9388	Chuska Mountains	5,537
34.	OR-Douglas	Mount Thielsen	9182	Crater Lake Area	5,061
35.	NM-McKinley	Cerros de Alejandro	9166	North San Mateo Mountains	5,455
36.	AZ-Pima	Mount Lemmon	9157	Huachuca Area	9,195
37.	CA-Kern	Sawmill Mountain	8818	San Emigdio Mountains	8,161
38.	OR-Lake	Crane Mountain	8456	Warner Mountains	8,344
39.	AZ-Mohave	Hualapai Peak	8417	Hualapai Mountains	13,468
40.	ID-Owyhee	Cinnabar Mountain	8403	Owyhee Mountains	7,684
41.	AZ-Navajo	Black Mesa High Point	8168	Hopi-Navajo Mesas	9,959
42.	OR-Malheur	Oregon Canyon Mountains Peak	8027	Trout Creek Area	9,912
43.	AZ-Yavapai	Mount Union	7979	Prescott Area	8,129
44.	AZ-Gila	Myrtle Point	7960	Mogollon Rim	4,797
45.	TX-Brewster	Emory Peak	7825	Big Bend Ranges	6,200
46.	NM-Chaves	One Tree Peak	7089	Sacramento Mountains	6,078
47.	AZ-Yuma	Signal Peak	4877	Kofa Area	5,522
48.	NE-Cherry	Hazel Benchmark	4206	Sand Hills	6,000
49.	ME-Aroostook	Peaked Mountain	2220	Northern Maine	6,809
50.	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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