Mount Scowden

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Mount Scowden
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Northeast aspect
Highest point
Elevation 11,182 ft (3,408 m) [1]
Prominence 123 ft (37 m) [2]
Parent peak Tioga Crest (11,911 ft) [2]
Isolation 1.04 mi (1.67 km) [2]
Coordinates 38°00′30″N119°15′37″W / 38.0084205°N 119.2601759°W / 38.0084205; -119.2601759 [1]
Geography
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Mount Scowden
Location in California
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Mount Scowden
Mount Scowden (the United States)
Location Mono County, California, U.S.
Parent range Sierra Nevada
Topo map USGS Dunderberg Peak
Geology
Rock age Triassic to Permian
Rock type(s) Andesite, Metavolcanic rock [3]

Mount Scowden is an 11,182-foot-elevation (3,408-meter) summit located in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Mono County of northern California, United States. [1] The mountain is set less than three miles east of the Sierra crest, within the Hoover Wilderness, on land managed by Inyo National Forest. Mount Scowden is situated in Lundy Canyon, one mile north of line parent Tioga Crest, 1.6 miles (2.6 km) west of Gilcrest Peak, and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) southeast of Black Mountain. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,900 feet (880 meters) above Mill Creek in one mile. Precipitation runoff from this mountain drains to Mill Creek, and ultimately Mono Lake. The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names and has been in publications since at least 1882. [1] [4] Leo A. Scowden (born 1848) was a mining engineer and United States deputy mineral surveyor for California who resided in Bodie, Mono County. [5] [6] [7] There were several mining claims on Mt. Scowden in the 1800s which gave rise to the gold rush camp of Lundy. [8]

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Mining

Gold and silver mining claims on Mt. Scowden: [9]

Climate

Mount Scowden is located in an alpine climate zone. [10] Most weather fronts originate in the Pacific Ocean, and travel east toward the Sierra Nevada mountains. As fronts approach, they are forced upward by the peaks (orographic lift), causing moisture in the form of rain or snowfall to drop onto the range.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Mount Scowden". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior . Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 "Scowden, Mount - 11,180' CA". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved May 10, 2022.
  3. ↑ United States Geological Survey (1983)
  4. ↑ Pacific Rural Press, Volume 23, Dewey & Company, April 8, 1882, p. 258
  5. ↑ Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1879, Washington: Government Printing Office (1879), p. 432
  6. ↑ The Engineering and Mining Journal, December 3, 1898, p. 674
  7. ↑ Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Government Printing Office, (1879), p. 703
  8. ↑ Mining and Scientific Press, February 17, 1900
  9. ↑ Jerry Grant (2020), Grants Mining Districts of the Western United States, Xlibris US, ISBN   9781664146914
  10. ↑ "Climate of the Sierra Nevada". Encyclopædia Britannica .
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