Jesses High Top
Jesses High Top rises to 1,326 m in North Carolina. Forked Ridge Knob stands 1,375 m to the north-northeast, 6.7 miles off. The nearest named place is High Windy, a peak 1.2 miles away. Black Mountain Rag passes 2.6 miles off.
The story
mountain in North Carolina, United States of America
Wikidata Q31425000, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1326 m
How to reach it
- 2.6 mi off the Black Mountain Rag
- 4.7 mi off the Drovers Road
- 6.7 mi off the Blue Ridge Parkway, National
- 15.1 mi off the French Broad Overview
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- High Windy: 1.2 mi
- Black Knob: 1.3 mi
- High Top: 1.5 mi
- Flat Top: 2.0 mi
- High Hickory Knob: 2.1 mi
- Grovemont Park: 2.7 mi
- Youth Center Park: 3.1 mi
- Lake Tomahawk Park: 3.3 mi
- Lake Tomahawk Park: 3.3 mi
- Town Square: 3.4 mi
- Davids Falls: 5.8 mi
- Upper Catawba Falls: 6.3 mi
- Catawba Falls: 6.5 mi
- Lower Catawaba Falls: 6.6 mi
- Tom's Falls: 6.8 mi
- Susie Skinner Clarke Hamilton: 6.2 mi
- Potato House: 8.4 mi
- Caretaker's Cabin: 8.4 mi
- The Den: 8.4 mi
- Tool Shed: 8.4 mi
- Columbarium Garden: 1.2 mi
- Dr. John Wilson Community Garden: 2.3 mi
- Shiloh Community Garden: 9.9 mi
- Griffing Rose Garden: 11.1 mi
- Spring Garden: 11.3 mi
- Swannanoa Valley Museum: 3.3 mi
- Old Fort Railroad Museum: 10.4 mi
- Mountain Gateway Museum: 10.4 mi
- Mountain Gateway Museum: 10.5 mi
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center: 11.0 mi
- Blue Ridge Assembly: 1.8 mi
- Tebbé Davies Fine Art Studios: 7.2 mi
- Statue of Diana: 11.1 mi
- Wake: 11.1 mi
- Deco Gecko: 11.2 mi
- McDowell Tourism Authority: 10.4 mi
- Ironland: 11.2 mi
- Biltmore Estate: 11.9 mi
- Grady's Animal Discovery Den: 12.0 mi
- Botanical Gardens at Asheville: 12.1 mi
- Florence Nature Preserve: 6.6 mi
- Pisgah National Forest: 7.2 mi
- Rocky Knob: 9.1 mi
- Craggy Mountain Wilderness Study Area: 10.0 mi
- Collier Cove Nature Preserve: 10.6 mi
- Slaty Cliffs: 7.2 mi
- Last house on the Hare RDG: 9.3 mi
- Raven Cliffs: 11.7 mi
- Cloven Cliffs: 12.9 mi
- The Pinnacles: 13.2 mi
- Mountain Spring @ Lakey Gap: 2.9 mi
- Hemphill Spring: 10.0 mi
- Pinnacle Spring: 10.1 mi
- Lenox Spring: 19.7 mi
- Crystal Spring: 19.9 mi
- I-26 Buncombe County Rest Area: 14.2 mi
- I-26 Henderson County Rest Area: 14.3 mi
- Marion Rest Area - Eastbound: 19.4 mi
- Marion Rest Area - Westbound: 19.5 mi
- McDowell County Rest Area: 19.5 mi
- Mt Mitchell Picnic Grounds: 14.1 mi
- Carolina Hemlocks Rec. Area Picnic Site: 17.9 mi
- N. Mills River Picnic Area: 20.1 mi
- Lake Powhatan Beach: 16.6 mi
- Mountain Springs Lane: 22.7 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 7.5 miles of Jesses High Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forked Ridge Knob | NNE 24° | 1,375 m | 6.7 mi |
| Little Pisgah Mountain | SSE 166° | 1,341 m | 5.5 mi |
| Middle Mountain | NNE 23° | 1,328 m | 7.4 mi |
| Unnamed Peak | NNE 22° | 1,323 m | 6.2 mi |
| High Windy | ESE 118° | 1,321 m | 1.2 mi |
| Black Knob | SSE 151° | 1,291 m | 1.3 mi |
| Brushy Knob | NNE 23° | 1,274 m | 6.0 mi |
| High Top | E 87° | 1,263 m | 1.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:15 | 20:11 | 20:49 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:36 | 16:41 | 17:21 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 33 | 36 | 42 | 52 | 60 | 65 | 68 | 67 | 62 | 53 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.5 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 5.2 | 3.8 | 4.1 | 4.3 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Swannanoa 2 SSE, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357807824
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