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Backbone Mountain-Preston County High Point, West Virginia

Prominence: 100 ft, 30 m

Elevation: 3400+ feet, 1036+ meters

True Isolation: 3.06 mi, 4.93 km

Elevation Info:	Elevation range: 3400 - 3420 ft (20-foot closed contour) NAVD88 Elevation: 3400 ft / 1036 m (Range 3400 - 3420 ft)
Peak Type	Unnamed High Point
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	39° 13' 18'' N, 79° 30' 7'' W 39.221593, -79.50196 (Dec Deg) 629315 E 4342437 N, Zone 17 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	West Virginia
County/Second Level Region	Preston (Highest Point)
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Backbone Mountain-Preston County High Point": Wikipedia Search Microsoft Bing Search Google Search Yahoo Search Other Web Sites Preston County High Point at ListsOfJohn.com CoHP.org Trip Report for Preston, WV by Fred Lobdell CoHP.org Trip Report for Preston, WV by Michael Schwartz CoHP.org Trip Report for Preston, WV by Ken and Alexandra Oeser CoHP.org Trip Report for Preston, WV by Julie Kawa, Pat and Jobe Wymore CoHP.org Trip Report for Preston, WV by Ryan Richardson CoHP.org Trip Report for Preston, WV by Don Desrosiers and Chip Clark CoHP.org Trip Report for Preston, WV by Brennan Connelly CoHP.org Trip Report for Preston, WV by Shannon Dillmore Weather and Snow National Weather Service Forecast NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Backbone Mountain-Preston County High Point: Northeastern USA CoHPs (Rank #43) West Virginia County High Points (Rank #16) Selected Trip Reports from this site: 2001-05-25 by Scott Surgent 2010-10-09 by Richard Oestreicher 2012-05-23 by Dennis Poulin (GPS Track) 2012-07-24 by Ryan Aschbrenner 2012-07-26 by Joe McGillian 2014-12-31 by Vanessa Arnold 2015-10-31 by Matt Horbal (GPS Track) 2015-12-27 by PJ Anderer 2017-07-03 by Andrew Hollis View ascents of peak by registered Peakbagger.com members (43 total) Nearby Peak Searches: Radius Search - Nearest Peaks to Backbone Mountain-Preston County High Point Elevation Ladder from Backbone Mountain-Preston County High Point Prominence Ladder from Backbone Mountain-Preston County High Point

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Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)
  Clean Prominence: 100 ft/30 m
  Optimistic Prominence: 140 ft/42 m
  Key Col: 3300 ft/1006 m

Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)
   Distance: 3.06 mi/4.93 km
   Isolation Limit Point: 39.185, -79.5342
Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:
    Backbone Mountain  (SW)

Ranges

Continent: North America
Range2: Appalachian Mountains
Range3: Appalachian Plateaus
Range4: Allegheny Mountains
Range5: Northern Allegheny Mountains
Range6: Backbone Mountain

Ridges/Divides

Appalachian Divide

Drainage Basins

Potomac
Chesapeake Bay
Atlantic Ocean

Monongahela
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean

Ownership

Land: Monongahela National Forest

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