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Counties with Largest Area

Rank	County	Peak	Elev-Ft	Range (Level 5)	Area-SqMi	Ascents
1.	CA-Inyo	Mount Whitney	14,498	Mount Whitney Group	10,224	3081
2.	CA-Fresno	North Palisade	14,242	Palisades	6,012	263
3.	CA-Siskiyou	Mount Shasta	14,162	Mount Shasta Area	6,338	1311
4.	WY-Fremont	Gannett Peak	13,804	Northern Wind River Range	9,249	313
5.	WY-Park	Francs Peak	13,153	Southern Absaroka Range	6,953	53
6.	NM-Rio Arriba	Truchas Peak	13,102	Santa Fe Mountains	5,895	91
7.	NV-White Pine	Wheeler Peak	13,063	Snake Range	8,888	689
8.	UT-San Juan	Mount Peale	12,721	La Sal Mountains	7,929	240
9.	AZ-Coconino	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Flagstaff Area	18,659	1266
10.	NM-Otero	Sierra Blanca Peak	11,973	Sacramento Mountains	6,631	134
11.	NV-Nye	Mount Jefferson	11,941	Toquima Range	18,147	294
12.	WY-Carbon	Medicine Bow Peak-West Ridge	11,920	Medicine Bow Mountains	7,952	88
13.	NV-Clark	Charleston Peak	11,916	Spring Mountains	8,089	993
14.	CA-San Bernardino	San Gorgonio Mountain	11,499	San Bernardino Mountains	20,108	1584
15.	NV-Lander	Bunker Hill	11,473	Toiyabe Range	5,514	138
16.	AZ-Apache	Mount Baldy	11,403	White Mountains	11,218	159
17.	NV-Elko	Ruby Dome	11,387	Ruby-East Humboldt Mountains	17,180	243
18.	MT-Beaverhead	Tweedy Mountain	11,154	Pioneer Mountains	5,559	36
19.	UT-Tooele	Deseret Peak	11,031	Stansbury Mountains	7,000	388
20.	NM-Catron	Whitewater Baldy	10,895	Mogollon Mountains	6,931	54
21.	CA-Riverside	San Jacinto Peak	10,839	San Jacinto Mountains	7,305	2218
22.	NM-Socorro	South Baldy	10,783	West-Central Rio Grande Area	6,651	125
23.	NV-Washoe	Mount Rose	10,776	Carson Range	6,543	751
24.	NV-Lincoln	Mount Grafton-South Ridge	10,640	Schell Creek Range	10,632	88
25.	UT-Millard	Mine Camp Peak	10,222	Pavant Range	6,822	128
26.	UT-Box Elder	Bull Mountain	9934	Northwest Salt Lake Ranges	5,775	122
27.	NV-Pershing	Star Peak	9836	Southeast Humboldt River Ranges	6,060	199
28.	AZ-Cochise	Chiricahua Peak	9759	Chiricahua Area	6,223	222
29.	OR-Harney	Steens Mountain	9733	Steens Mountain Area	10,208	178
30.	NV-Humboldt	Granite Peak	9732	Santa Rosa Mountains	9,644	152
31.	WY-Sweetwater	Pine Mountain	9550	East Flaming Gorge Area	10,476	45
32.	ID-Idaho	Bare Peak Northwest	9439	Central Bitteroot Range	8,482	17
33.	NM-San Juan	Beautiful Mountain	9388	Chuska Mountains	5,537	29
34.	OR-Klamath	Mount Thielsen	9182	Crater Lake Area	6,125	364
35.	NM-McKinley	Cerros de Alejandro	9166	North San Mateo Mountains	5,455	28
36.	AZ-Pima	Mount Lemmon	9157	Huachuca Area	9,195	345
37.	CA-Kern	Sawmill Mountain	8818	San Emigdio Mountains	8,161	567
38.	OR-Lake	Crane Mountain	8456	Warner Mountains	8,344	82
39.	AZ-Mohave	Hualapai Peak	8417	Hualapai Mountains	13,468	180
40.	ID-Owyhee	Hayden Peak	8403	Owyhee Mountains	7,684	88
41.	AZ-Navajo	Black Mesa High Point	8168	Hopi-Navajo Mesas	9,959	68
42.	OR-Malheur	Oregon Canyon Mountains Peak	8027	Trout Creek Area	9,912	50
43.	AZ-Yavapai	Mount Union	7979	Prescott Area	8,129	186
44.	TX-Brewster	Emory Peak	7825	Big Bend Ranges	6,200	308
45.	AZ-Maricopa	Browns Peak	7657	Mazatzal Mountains	9,228	198
46.	NM-Chaves	One Tree Peak	7089	Sacramento Mountains	6,078	50
47.	AZ-Yuma	Signal Peak	4877	Kofa Area	5,522	296
48.	NE-Cherry	Hazel Benchmark	4206	Sand Hills	6,000	12
49.	ME-Aroostook	Peaked Mountain	2220	Northern Maine	6,809	35
50.	MN-Saint Louis	Pike Mountain	1950	Northern Minnesota Ranges	6,719	20

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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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