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Counties with Largest Area

Showing Bill Jacobs'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	1988-07-15
2.	AZ-Coconino	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Flagstaff Area	18,659	1995-10-13
3.	AZ-Yavapai	Mount Union	7979	Prescott Area	8,129	2003-05-03
4.	OR-Harney	Steens Mountain	9733	Steens Mountain Area	10,208	2003-08-01
5.	AZ-Gila	Myrtle Point	7960	Mogollon Rim	4,797	2004-05-27
6.	AZ-Navajo	Black Mesa High Point	8168	Hopi-Navajo Mesas	9,959	2004-05-31
7.	NV-Clark	Charleston Peak	11,916	Spring Mountains	8,089	2004-07-04
8.	NM-McKinley	Cerros de Alejandro	9166	North San Mateo Mountains	5,455	2004-08-03
9.	AZ-Apache	Mount Baldy	11,403	White Mountains	11,218	2004-08-12
10.	AZ-Pima	Mount Lemmon	9157	Huachuca Area	9,195	2004-08-21
11.	AZ-Mohave	Hualapai Peak	8417	Hualapai Mountains	13,468	2005-03-25
12.	AZ-Yuma	Signal Peak	4877	Kofa Area	5,522	2005-04-10
13.	NM-Socorro	South Baldy	10,783	West-Central Rio Grande Area	6,651	2005-05-31
14.	NV-Lincoln	Mount Grafton-South Ridge	10,640	Schell Creek Range	10,632	2005-06-25
15.	CA-San Bernardino	San Gorgonio Mountain	11,499	San Bernardino Mountains	20,108	2005-07-14
16.	NM-Catron	Whitewater Baldy	10,895	Mogollon Mountains	6,931	2005-07-21
17.	CA-Kern	Sawmill Mountain	8818	San Emigdio Mountains	8,161	2005-07-30
18.	CA-Riverside	San Jacinto Peak	10,839	San Jacinto Mountains	7,305	2005-08-22
19.	AZ-Cochise	Chiricahua Peak	9759	Chiricahua Area	6,223	2005-11-06
20.	NV-Washoe	Mount Rose	10,776	Carson Range	6,543	2010-09-19
21.	NV-Humboldt	Granite Peak	9732	Santa Rosa Mountains	9,644	2012-07-25
22.	NV-Pershing	Star Peak	9836	Southeast Humboldt River Ranges	6,060	2012-07-26
	CA-Fresno	North Palisade	14,242	Palisades	6,012
	CA-Siskiyou	Mount Shasta	14,162	Mount Shasta Area	6,338
	WY-Fremont	Gannett Peak	13,804	Northern Wind River Range	9,249
	WY-Park	Francs Peak	13,153	Southern Absaroka Range	6,953
	NM-Rio Arriba	Truchas Peak	13,102	Santa Fe Mountains	5,895
	NV-White Pine	Wheeler Peak	13,063	Snake Range	8,888
	UT-San Juan	Mount Peale	12,721	La Sal Mountains	7,929
	WY-Albany	Medicine Bow Peak	12,013	Medicine Bow Mountains	4,303
	NM-Otero	Sierra Blanca Peak	11,973	Sacramento Mountains	6,631
	NV-Nye	Mount Jefferson	11,941	Toquima Range	18,147
	NV-Lander	Bunker Hill	11,473	Toiyabe Range	5,514
	NV-Elko	Ruby Dome	11,387	Ruby-East Humboldt Mountains	17,180
	MT-Beaverhead	Tweedy Mountain	11,154	Pioneer Mountains	5,559
	UT-Tooele	Deseret Peak	11,031	Stansbury Mountains	7,000
	UT-Millard	Mine Camp Peak	10,222	Pavant Range	6,822
	UT-Box Elder	Bull Mountain	9934	Northwest Salt Lake Ranges	5,775
	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
	OR-Lake	Crane Mountain	8456	Warner Mountains	8,344
	ID-Owyhee	Cinnabar Mountain	8403	Owyhee Mountains	7,684
	OR-Malheur	Oregon Canyon Mountains Peak	8027	Trout Creek Area	9,912
	TX-Brewster	Emory Peak	7825	Big Bend Ranges	6,200
	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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