Mount Davidson (Nevada)

Mount Davidson
Storey County, Nevada, USA
Elevation 7,864 ft (2,397 m) NAVD 88[1]
Prominence 2,704 ft (824 m) [2]
Location
Range Virginia Range
Coordinates [1]
Topo map USGS Mount Davidson

Mount Davidson is the highest mountain in Storey County, Nevada, as well as the Virginia Range. The mountain forms a backdrop for the mining boomtown of Virginia City which was built above the Comstock Lode silver strike.

Mark Twain mentions a flag on Mount Davidson in his semi-autobiographical book Roughing It.[3] As of 2003 the flagpole was still standing.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "Davidson". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=KR1642. Retrieved 2009-09-25. 
  2. ^ "Mount Davidson, Nevada". Peakbagger.com. http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=3748. Retrieved 2009-09-25. 
  3. ^ Twain, Mark (1872). Roughing It. Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3177. 
  4. ^ "Mount Davidson". SummitPost.org. http://www.summitpost.org/page/153745. Retrieved 2009-12-31.