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US Elevation Ladder from East to West

Each of these hills/mountains is higher than all US points east of it. For each elevation, name the high point
This was less a strict attempt at finding the easternmost high points using, and more an excuse to play around with Openstreetmap. May not be completely accurate in Maine
There are multiple peaks with the same name in this list
Includes subpeaks, given that there is no prominence requirements to be on this list. Subpeaks are given parenthesis.
Quiz by Kearsarge
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Last updated: July 20, 2023
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State
Elevation
Answer
Maine
57 m
Redoubt Hill
Maine
74 m
Porcupine Mountain
Maine
74 m
Number Nine Hill
Maine
99 m
Porcupine Mountain
Maine
156 m
Trimble Mountain
Maine
164 m
Carlisle Mountain
Maine
177 m
Rye Hill
Maine
256 m
Vance Mountain
Maine
261 m
Pirate Hill
Maine
295 m
Tomah Mountain
Maine
308 m
Spruce Mountain
Maine
365 m
Greenland Mountain
Maine
531 m
Mars Hill Mountain
Maine
557 m
Long Mountain
Maine
736 m
Mount Chase
Maine
999 m
North Turner Mountain
Maine
1079 m
The Traveler
Maine
1436 m
Katahdin (Pamola Peak)
Maine
1601 m
Katahdin (South Peak)
Maine
1605 m
Katahdin (Baxter Peak)
New Hampshire
1636 m
Mount Madison
New Hampshire
1708 m
Mount Washington (Nelson Crag)
State
Elevation
Answer
New Hampshire
1748 m
Mount Adams
New Hampshire
1917 m
Mount Washington
North Carolina
1946 m
Balsam Cone (Potato Hill)
North Carolina
2007 m
Balsam Cone
North Carolina
2026 m
Mount Craig
North Carolina
2038 m
Mount Mitchell
Texas
2301 m
Lost Mine Peak
Texas
2385 m
Emory Peak
Colorado
2666 m
Burro Mesa
Colorado
2747 m
Little Fishers Peak Mesa
Colorado
2936 m
Fishers Peak
Colorado
3867 m
East Spanish Peak
Colorado
4155 m
West Spanish Peak
Colorado
4302 m
Pikes Peak
Colorado
4374 m
Blanca Peak
Colorado
4396 m
Mount Harvard
Colorado
4401 m
Mount Elbert
California
4421 m
Mount Whitney
Alaska/British Columbia
4671 m
Mount Fairweather
Alaska/Yukon
5489 m
Mount Saint Elias
Alaska
6190 m
Denali
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Jul 20, 2023
As I said above, this was just an excuse to screw around with Openstreetmap for an hour or two. This is about as unscientific a quiz as imaginable, and while I am pretty certain on anything in NH and westward, everything to the east of Mars Hill was determined manually by eyeballing elevations and comparing coordinates of locations I thought were likely higher. If I really wanted to be completely accurate here. I would have grabbed a bunch of heightmaps of eastern Maine, fed them into QGIS, and then tried to create something that would determine a series of points that were higher than anything east of it. I did not do that, so there might be some errors here.