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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	3379
2.	CA-Riverside	San Jacinto Peak	10,839	San Jacinto Mountains	7,305	2483
3.	CA-San Bernardino	San Gorgonio Mountain	11,499	San Bernardino Mountains	20,108	1789
4.	CA-Siskiyou	Mount Shasta	14,162	Mount Shasta Area	6,338	1435
5.	AZ-Coconino	Humphreys Peak	12,633	Flagstaff Area	18,659	1432
6.	NV-Clark	Charleston Peak	11,916	Spring Mountains	8,089	1076
7.	NV-Washoe	Mount Rose	10,776	Carson Range	6,543	812
8.	NV-White Pine	Wheeler Peak	13,063	Snake Range	8,888	767
9.	CA-Kern	Sawmill Mountain	8818	San Emigdio Mountains	8,161	636
10.	UT-Tooele	Deseret Peak	11,031	Stansbury Mountains	7,000	431
11.	AZ-Pima	Mount Lemmon	9157	Huachuca Area	9,195	401
12.	OR-Klamath	Mount Thielsen	9182	Crater Lake Area	6,125	396
13.	TX-Brewster	Emory Peak	7825	Big Bend Ranges	6,200	348
14.	WY-Fremont	Gannett Peak	13,804	Northern Wind River Range	9,249	346
15.	NV-Nye	Mount Jefferson	11,941	Toquima Range	18,147	314
16.	AZ-Yuma	Signal Peak	4877	Kofa Area	5,522	309
17.	CA-Fresno	North Palisade	14,242	Palisades	6,012	281
18.	UT-San Juan	Mount Peale	12,721	La Sal Mountains	7,929	275
19.	NV-Elko	Ruby Dome	11,387	Ruby-East Humboldt Mountains	17,180	257
20.	AZ-Cochise	Chiricahua Peak	9759	Chiricahua Area	6,223	251
21.	NV-Pershing	Star Peak	9836	Southeast Humboldt River Ranges	6,060	229
22.	AZ-Maricopa	Browns Peak	7657	Mazatzal Mountains	9,228	216
23.	AZ-Yavapai	Mount Union	7979	Prescott Area	8,129	205
24.	AZ-Mohave	Hualapai Peak	8417	Hualapai Mountains	13,468	198
25.	OR-Harney	Steens Mountain	9733	Steens Mountain Area	10,208	194
26.	AZ-Apache	Mount Baldy	11,403	White Mountains	11,218	171
27.	NV-Humboldt	Granite Peak	9732	Santa Rosa Mountains	9,644	166
28.	NM-Otero	Sierra Blanca Peak	11,973	Sacramento Mountains	6,631	160
29.	NV-Lander	Bunker Hill	11,473	Toiyabe Range	5,514	148
30.	NM-Socorro	South Baldy	10,783	West-Central Rio Grande Area	6,651	143
31.	UT-Millard	Mine Camp Peak	10,222	Pavant Range	6,822	137
32.	UT-Box Elder	Bull Mountain	9934	Northwest Salt Lake Ranges	5,775	135
33.	ID-Owyhee	Hayden Peak	8403	Owyhee Mountains	7,684	101
34.	WY-Carbon	Medicine Bow Peak-West Ridge	11,920	Medicine Bow Mountains	7,952	99
35.	NM-Rio Arriba	Truchas Peak	13,102	Santa Fe Mountains	5,895	98
36.	NV-Lincoln	Mount Grafton-South Ridge	10,640	Schell Creek Range	10,632	93
37.	OR-Lake	Crane Mountain	8456	Warner Mountains	8,344	88
38.	AZ-Navajo	Black Mesa High Point	8168	Hopi-Navajo Mesas	9,959	72
39.	NM-Catron	Whitewater Baldy	10,895	Mogollon Mountains	6,931	61
40.	WY-Park	Francs Peak	13,153	Southern Absaroka Range	6,953	58
41.	OR-Malheur	Oregon Canyon Mountains Peak	8027	Trout Creek Area	9,912	52
42.	NM-Chaves	One Tree Peak	7089	Sacramento Mountains	6,078	51
43.	WY-Sweetwater	Pine Mountain	9550	East Flaming Gorge Area	10,476	47
44.	MT-Beaverhead	Tweedy Mountain	11,154	Pioneer Mountains	5,559	41
45.	ME-Aroostook	Peaked Mountain	2220	Northern Maine	6,809	37
46.	NM-San Juan	Beautiful Mountain	9388	Chuska Mountains	5,537	29
46.	NM-McKinley	Cerros de Alejandro	9166	North San Mateo Mountains	5,455	29
48.	MN-Saint Louis	Pike Mountain	1950	Northern Minnesota Ranges	6,719	21
49.	ID-Idaho	Bare Peak Northwest	9439	Central Bitteroot Range	8,482	19
50.	NE-Cherry	Hazel Benchmark	4206	Sand Hills	6,000	13

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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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