| Lumpkin Hill | |
|---|---|
Georgia State Route 20 goes over the summit of Lumpkin Hill | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 640 ft (200 m) [1] |
| Coordinates | 34°15′32″N85°09′59″W / 34.2589824°N 85.1663393°W Coordinates: 34°15′32″N85°09′59″W / 34.2589824°N 85.1663393°W [2] [3] |
| Geography | |
  Lumpkin Hill Location of Lumpkin Hill in Georgia | |
| Location | Rome, Georgia, U.S. |
| Topo map | USGS Rome North, GA |
| Climbing | |
| Easiest route | Drive |
Lumpkin Hill is a summit in Rome, Georgia. [2] With an elevation of 640 feet (200 m), Lumpkin Hill is the 914th highest summit in the state of Georgia. [1] The hill is considered to be one of the Seven Hills of Rome, Georgia. [4] [5]
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak, and zenith are synonymous.
Rome is the largest city in the county seat of Floyd County, Georgia, United States. Located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, it is the principal city of the Rome, Georgia, Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Floyd County. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 36,303. It is the largest city in Northwest Georgia and the 19th largest city in the state.
The summit was named for John Henry Lumpkin, who is also buried on the hill. [6] [4] In 1956, Lumpkin Hill's peak was leveled during the construction of Turner McCall Boulevard. [4]
John Henry Lumpkin was an American politician, lawyer and jurist.
State Route 20 (SR 20) is a 165.345-mile-long (266.097 km) state highway roughly in the shape of a capital J rotated ninety degrees to the left, which travels through portions of Floyd, Bartow, Cherokee, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Walton, Rockdale, Newton, and Henry counties in the northwestern and north-central parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. Its counterclockwise, or western terminus is at the Alabama state line in Floyd County, and its clockwise, or eastern terminus occurs at its interchange with Lower Woolsey Road southwest of Hampton in Henry County south-southeast of the Atlanta Motor Speedway.
