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Kingman Reef high point – less than 7 feet (2 m) [ 92 ] Midway Atoll, Sand Island high point – 50 feet (15 m) [ 92 ] – The highest point of the U.S. minor outlying islands in the Pacific Ocean. Navassa Island high point – 280 feet (85 m) [ 91 ] – The highest point of all the U.S. minor outlying islands.
Fort Reno Park has the highest point in the District of Columbia. [11] 345 feet (105 m) Lakewood. Florida. [12] Unincorporated settlement by Britton Hill, the highest natural point in Florida. Britton Hill is the lowest high point in any state. The highest incorporated town is nearby Paxton, at 318 feet (97 m).
2,868. 35.1 °F (1.7 °C) Colorado. Blue River. 10,020 ft (3,054 m) 921. No Data. Note: Alma, Colorado is the highest when considering only areas with permanent residents. Using administrative boundaries as a measure, not settled areas, in 2006 Winter Park, Colorado became the highest incorporated town due to its annexation of a ski area.
Lake County, Colorado has the highest U.S. county mean elevation of 11,702 feet (3,567 m). Lake County is the home of Mount Elbert and Mount Massive, the two highest summits of the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada. Lake County is also the home of the highest U.S. county low point, the Arkansas River at the Chaffee County line ...
New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe – highest state capitol in the United States at 7,005 feet Colorado 39°00′N 105°30′W / 39.000°N 105.500°W / 39.000; -105.500 ( State of Colorado ) – highest U.S. state based on an average elevation of 6,800 feet (
The following table lists the 60 highest United States county or county-equivalent [ a ] high points. [ b ] The highest U.S. county high point is the summit of Denali in the Denali Borough of Alaska, the highest summit of the United States and all of North America. Of these 60 highest county high points, 32 are located in Colorado, seven in ...
Surveyor's mark embedded in the observation tower notes the elevation of 6684-feet above sea level Fall foliage at Mount Mitchell. The peak is the highest mountain in the United States east of the Mississippi River, [4] [5] and the highest in all of eastern North America south of the Arctic Cordillera.
The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the tip of a mountain above a geodetic sea level. [b] [c] The first table below ranks the 100 highest major summits of the United States by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings.