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Counties with Largest Area

Showing Dennis Poulin's first ascent dates for climbed peaks

Rank	County	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 5)	Area-SqMi	Ascent Date
1.	OR-Douglas	Mount Thielsen	9182	Crater Lake Area	5,061	1999-07-05
2.	CA-Siskiyou	Mount Shasta	14,162	Mount Shasta Area	6,338	1999-09-11
3.	OR-Lake	Crane Mountain	8456	Warner Mountains	8,344	2003-06-28 a
4.	CA-Inyo	Mount Whitney	14,495	Mount Whitney Group	10,224	2003-07-12
5.	OR-Harney	Steens Mountain	9733	Steens Mountain Area	10,208	2003-08-30 b
6.	OR-Malheur	Oregon Canyon Mountains Peak	8027	Trout Creek Area	9,912	2003-08-30 c
7.	NV-Humboldt	Granite Peak	9732	Santa Rosa Mountains	9,644	2004-05-27
8.	NV-Washoe	Mount Rose	10,776	Carson Range	6,543	2004-05-28
9.	NV-Pershing	Star Peak	9836	Southeast Humboldt River Ranges	6,060	2004-07-05 a
10.	CA-Kern	Sawmill Mountain	8818	San Emigdio Mountains	8,161	2004-09-03
11.	NV-Clark	Charleston Peak	11,916	Spring Mountains	8,089	2004-09-09
12.	NV-Lander	Bunker Hill	11,473	Toiyabe Range	5,514	2004-10-03
13.	NV-Elko	Ruby Dome	11,387	Ruby-East Humboldt Mountains	17,180	2004-10-05
14.	NV-White Pine	Wheeler Peak	13,063	Snake Range	8,888	2004-10-06
15.	NV-Lincoln	Mount Grafton-South Ridge	10,640	Schell Creek Range	10,632	2004-10-07
16.	NV-Nye	Mount Jefferson	11,941	Toquima Range	18,147	2004-10-08
17.	CA-Riverside	San Jacinto Peak	10,839	San Jacinto Mountains	7,305	2005-02-03
18.	AZ-Yuma	Signal Peak	4877	Kofa Area	5,522	2005-03-05
19.	CA-San Bernardino	San Gorgonio Mountain	11,499	San Bernardino Mountains	20,108	2005-05-13
20.	ID-Owyhee	Cinnabar Mountain	8403	Owyhee Mountains	7,684	2005-06-05
21.	UT-Millard	Mine Camp Peak	10,222	Pavant Range	6,822	2005-07-02
22.	UT-San Juan	Mount Peale	12,721	La Sal Mountains	7,929	2005-07-05
23.	AZ-Coconino	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Flagstaff Area	18,659	2005-08-20
24.	UT-Tooele	Deseret Peak	11,031	Stansbury Mountains	7,000	2006-07-05
25.	UT-Box Elder	Bull Mountain	9934	Northwest Salt Lake Ranges	5,775	2006-08-17
26.	WY-Sweetwater	Pine Mountain	9550	East Flaming Gorge Area	10,476	2006-08-20
27.	AZ-Pima	Mount Lemmon	9157	Huachuca Area	9,195	2006-11-13
28.	AZ-Cochise	Chiricahua Peak	9759	Chiricahua Area	6,223	2006-11-15
29.	AZ-Yavapai	Mount Union	7979	Prescott Area	8,129	2006-11-17
30.	AZ-Gila	Myrtle Point	7960	Mogollon Rim	4,797	2006-11-17
31.	AZ-Mohave	Hualapai Peak	8417	Hualapai Mountains	13,468	2006-11-18
32.	CA-Fresno	North Palisade	14,242	Palisades	6,012	2007-08-15
33.	AZ-Navajo	Black Mesa High Point	8168	Hopi-Navajo Mesas	9,959	2008-04-16
34.	WY-Fremont	Gannett Peak	13,804	Northern Wind River Range	9,249	2008-07-29
35.	NM-Otero	Sierra Blanca Peak	11,973	Sacramento Mountains	6,631	2008-10-06
36.	AZ-Apache	Mount Baldy	11,403	White Mountains	11,218	2008-10-10
37.	NM-San Juan	Beautiful Mountain	9388	Chuska Mountains	5,537	2009-10-02 b
38.	NM-McKinley	Cerros de Alejandro	9166	North San Mateo Mountains	5,455	2009-10-04 c
39.	NM-Socorro	South Baldy	10,783	West-Central Rio Grande Area	6,651	2009-10-08 a
40.	ID-Idaho	Bare Peak Northwest	9439	Central Bitteroot Range	8,482	2011-08-13 c
41.	NM-Chaves	One Tree Peak	7089	Sacramento Mountains	6,078	2012-02-21 a
42.	TX-Brewster	Emory Peak	7825	Big Bend Ranges	6,200	2012-02-24
	WY-Park	Francs Peak	13,153	Southern Absaroka Range	6,953
	NM-Rio Arriba	Truchas Peak	13,102	Santa Fe Mountains	5,895
	WY-Albany	Medicine Bow Peak	12,013	Medicine Bow Mountains	4,303
	MT-Beaverhead	Tweedy Mountain	11,154	Pioneer Mountains	5,559
	NM-Catron	Whitewater Baldy	10,895	Mogollon Mountains	6,931
	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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