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Rising to an elevation of 2,064 feet (629 m) above sea level, House Mountain is the highest point in Knox County. The House Mountain State Natural Area— designated in 1987— consists of 527 acres (2.13 km 2), mostly on the south side of the mountain.
Located within the White Mountains of Arizona and surrounded by the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest Greer is the highest town in the state at an elevation of approximately 8,400 feet (2,600 m). The highest incorporated town in Arizona is Eagar at an elevation of 7,080 feet (2,160 m). Eagar lies 20 minutes northeast of Greer along the New ...
Short Mountain is a mountain-sized monadnock that is the highest point in Cannon County, Tennessee and the Nashville metropolitan area.It is surrounded by the Highland Rim to the north, east and south but is an outlier of the Cumberland Plateau, evidenced by its sandstone caprock reaching over 2,000 feet (610 meters) in elevation; [1] this makes it the westernmost part of Tennessee with an ...
The elevation of the Cumberland Plateau ranges from about 1,500 to 2,500 feet (460 to 760 m) above sea level, with an average elevation of approximately 2,000 feet (610 m). The eastern part of the plateau is, on average, higher than the western part, and most of the water on the Plateau drains to the west into the Cumberland River .
Shady Valley is an unincorporated community in Johnson County, in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.It is just outside Cherokee National Forest.Shady Valley is also the name of the valley in which the town is located, between Holston Mountain on the northwest, and the Iron Mountains to the southeast.
The Western Highland Rim is encountered a few miles west of Nashville and extends to the western valley of the Tennessee River. [citation needed] The area is hilly, ranging from about 400 to 1000 feet in elevation, [1] and is bisected by the Tennessee River and the Cumberland River valleys.
Mountain Home, zip code 37684, is a separate postal zone consisting of the grounds of the James H. Quillen VA hospital and Mountain Home National Cemetery, which also includes classrooms and administrative buildings of the East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine. It is entirely contained inside the city of Johnson City.
The land was originally the home of the Cherokee Nation, who were mostly displaced to Oklahoma along the Trail of Tears in 1838. A grant of 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) was made to Daniel D. Foute in 1837. This included the area now covered by Top of the World, which was purchased by a developer in the early 1960s.