Kendall Peak (Colorado)

Kendall Peak
Kendall Peak
	Kendall Peak (upper left corner) with Kendall Mountain in upper right. View from Little Giant Peak. (1875, by William Henry Jackson)
Highest point
Elevation	13,455 ft (4,101 m)
Prominence	1,148 ft (350 m)
Parent peak	Canby Mountain (13,478 ft)
Isolation	4.06 mi (6.53 km)
Coordinates	37°47′14″N107°37′06″W / 37.7872134°N 107.6183835°W
Naming
Etymology	James Kendall
Geography
	Kendall Peak Location in Colorado Kendall Peak Kendall Peak (the United States)
Country	United States
State	Colorado
County	San Juan
Parent range	Rocky Mountains ; San Juan Mountains
Topo map	USGS Howardsville
Climbing
Easiest route	class 2 hiking

Last updated December 18, 2024

Kendall Peak is a 13,455-foot-elevation (4,101-meter) mountain summit in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.

Description

Kendall Peak is located three miles (4.8 km) southeast of the community of Silverton on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management.^[4] It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of the Continental Divide in the San Juan Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Animas River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,270 feet (390 meters) above Silver Lake in one-half mile (0.8 km) and 4,250 feet (1,300 meters) above the Animas River valley in 2.7 miles (4.3 km). The highest point of Kendall Mountain (13,353 ft) is 0.65 mile north of Kendall Peak.^[5]

History

The mountain's "Kendall Peak" toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names,^[2] and has been recorded in publications since at least 1906.^[6] The Kendall Mountain name has been recorded since at least 1879.^[7] The mountain is named for James Kendall, miner and prospector in the San Juan Mountains in the 1800s.^[8]^[9] The toponym "Mount Kendall" was listed by Henry Gannett in his 1884 "A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States" as having been named by the Hayden and Wheeler surveys. Mount Kendall was listed as having elevations of 13,542-ft and 13,380-ft which roughly correspond to the elevations of Kendall Peak and Kendall Mountain.^[10]

Climate

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Kendall Peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.^[11] Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter and as thunderstorms in summer, with a dry period in late spring. This climate supports the Kendall Mountain Ski Area.

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References

1 2 3 4 5 "Kendall Peak - 13,455' CO". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
1 2 "Kendall Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved June 30, 2023.
↑ "Kendall Peak, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
↑ BLM Ownership map, Silverton, Colorado, blm.gov
↑ "Kendall Mountain - 13,353' CO". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
↑ Henry Gannett, United States Geological Survey (1906), A Gazetteer of Colorado, US Government Printing Office, p. 96.
↑ Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 28, 1879, p. 337.
↑ Jerry Grant (2020), Grants Mining Districts of the Western United States, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation
↑ Kendall Gulch, 4x4explore.com, Retrieved June 30, 2023
↑ Henry Gannett (1884), A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States, US Government Printing Office, p. 62.
↑ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.

External links

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National Geodetic Survey data sheet

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[listsofjohn-1] 1 2 3 4 5 "Kendall Peak - 13,455' CO". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.

[GNIS-2] 1 2 "Kendall Peak". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved June 30, 2023.

[pb-3] "Kendall Peak, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.

[4] BLM Ownership map, Silverton, Colorado, blm.gov

[listsofjohn2-5] "Kendall Mountain - 13,353' CO". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.

[6] Henry Gannett, United States Geological Survey (1906), A Gazetteer of Colorado, US Government Printing Office, p. 96.

[7] Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 28, 1879, p. 337.

[8] Jerry Grant (2020), Grants Mining Districts of the Western United States, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation

[9] Kendall Gulch, 4x4explore.com, Retrieved June 30, 2023

[10] Henry Gannett (1884), A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States, US Government Printing Office, p. 62.

[Peel-11] Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.

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