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Mississippi-Illinois-Lake Michigan Plains

Range Type	Bogus mountain grouping for this site
Highest Point	Rib Mountain (1924 ft/586 m)
Countries	United States
States/Provinces	Wisconsin (62%), Illinois (37%) (numbers are approximate percentage of range area)
Area	52,196 sq mi / 135,188 sq km Area may include lowland areas
Extent	459 mi / 738 km North-South 272 mi / 438 km East-West
Center Lat/Long	42° 5' N; 89° 31' W
Map Link	Microsoft Bing Map
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Map of Mississippi-Illinois-Lake Michigan Plains
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Note: Range borders shown on map are an approximation and are not authoritative.
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Other Ranges: To go to pages for other ranges either click on the map above, or on range names in the hierarchy snapshot below, which show the parent, siblings, and children of the Mississippi-Illinois-Lake Michigan Plains.

Upper Mississippi Area	Level 4 (Parent)
Mississippi Headwaters	Level 5 (Sibling)
Mississippi-Missouri River Plains	Level 5 (Sibling)
Mississippi-Illinois-Lake Michigan Plains	Level 5

Major Peaks of the Mississippi-Illinois-Lake Michigan Plains

Ten Highest Peaks
Rank	Peak Name	ft	m	Range6
1.	Rib Mountain	1924	586
2.	Blue Mounds	1719	524
3.	Mosinee Hill	1600+	488+
4.	Sauk Point Benchmark	1593	486
5.	Powers Bluff	1480+	451+
6.	Happy Hill	1480+	451+
7.	Clark County High Point	1480+	451+
8.	South Range	1480+	451+
9.	Devil's Lake West Bluff	1467	447
10.	Sunny Benchmark	1448	441
Sub-peaks are excluded from this list. List may not be complete, since only summits in the PBC Database are included.

Photos of Peaks in the Mississippi-Illinois-Lake Michigan Plains

Rib Mountain Rib Mountain summit block, Marathon County, WI. Photo by Doug Urban. Click here for larger-size photo.	Blue Mounds Blue Mound, Wisconsin Photo by Tom Scheimo. Click here for larger-size photo.
Powers Bluff The highpoint of Wood County is next to this old radio building on top of this ridge on Powers Bluff (2016-05-02). Photo by Doug Urban. Click here for larger-size photo.	Clark County High Point Clark County Highpoint with the "S" marking the summit. The green dots highlight the standard route. The red dots mark the more strenuous "Mountaineer's Route" (2014-05-26). Photo by Gustav Sexauer. Click here for larger-size photo.
Platte Mounds Platte Mound as viewed from the west with the higher summit on the left and the "World's Largest M" on the right (2010-07-03). Photo by Gustav Sexauer. Click here for larger-size photo.	South Mound South Mound 310' prominence near Willard, WI (2020-07-23). Photo by Doug Urban. Click here for larger-size photo.
Saddle Mound View from Saddle Mound fire tower, Jackson Co., WI. Photo by Doug Urban. Click here for larger-size photo.	North Mound North Mound near Willard. (2020-10-13). Photo by Doug Urban. Click here for larger-size photo.
Montana Ridge This cemetery on Montana Ridge is also the location of the Buffalo county highpoint (2016-04-20). Photo by Doug Urban. Click here for larger-size photo.	Bruce Mound View of Bruce Mound from Levis Mound (2019-06-20). Photo by Tom Scheimo. Click here for larger-size photo.

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