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The table above lists the 13 mountain peaks in Tennessee above 6000'. Bag a sixer! There are a few more sixers on the NC side of the Smoky mountains, see GSMNP landforms. The highest point in TN is Clingmans Dome at 6,643'. The lowest point in Tennessee is 178' along the Mississippi. The highest mountain east of the Black Hills of South Dakota and west of the Appalachians is Cross Mountain at 3,540'. Check out the county high points for the highest location in each of Tennessee's 95 counties and learn more about digital elevation data (DEM, LiDAR, SRTM). Also see article on Tennessee's high points (1999).

Google map/image of Tennessee peaks or leafletjs (non-google) TN peaks map

Tennessee has 25 peaks over a mile high, and there are many more unnamed peaks over 4000' -- their significance a function of prominence and isolation.

• ongoing GPS elevation survey of the Smoky Mountain peaks
• listsofjohn TN 6000' peaks or other peak lists
• TN peaks over 4000' (129 with 200' prominence) and GPS waypoint file tnptop.gpx
• peakbagger.com TN TN peaks over 4500' (160' prominence)
• TN peaks of isolation -- list of peaks (300' prominence, 10 miles or more) in order of isolation (distance from nearest higher peak) and map or listsofjohn isolation list (nearest higher peak must have minimum 300' prominence)
• Southern peaks over 6000'
  • South Beyond 6000 (minimum promience of 200' or isolation of at least 0.75 miles)
  • peakbagger.com's South beyhond 6000 and summitpost southern sixers
  • Southern Appalachian 6000-foot Peaks
  • book The Southern Sixers
• TN peaks of prominence: 1000' prominence and map or 500' prominence map or listsofjohn prominence list
• Great Smoky Mountain peaks of 5000' and higher with at least 160' of prominence map
• Southern peaks with 2000' prominence (Clingmans Dome, Roan High Knob, Big Bald, Big Frog Mtn, English Mtn, Flag Pole).
• some English Mountain history
• Tennessee county high points or county summits and peaks of isolation (by county)
• Tennessee state parks high points
• NGS datasheets benchmarks by lat/lon, county, quad
• USGS topo quads with peaks
• prominence info key saddle, basins, isolation and prominence wiki
• info on the remotest point in Tennessee

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