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Mount Fillmore

Mount Fillmore, seen from above at true elevation

Mount Fillmore rises to 2,344 m in California. Mount Elwell stands 2,361 m to the east, 8.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Mount Etna, a peak 1.3 miles away.

The story

Mount Fillmore is a mountain in the Plumas National Forest in Sierra County, California. It is 8 miles (13 km) northeast of La Porte and 12 miles (19 km) north of Downieville. Mount Fillmore was named for a naval officer.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Wikidata Q6920758, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
2344 m

How to reach it

Coordinates39.73017, -120.85245

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Mount Etna: 1.3 mi
  • Stafford Mountain: 1.6 mi
  • Skyhigh: 2.2 mi
  • Beartrap Mountain: 2.3 mi
  • Table Rock: 2.4 mi
Parks: 16
  • Lake Basin Recreation Area: 10.1 mi
  • Central Plumas Recreation & Parks District: 14.6 mi
  • Pioneer Park: 14.6 mi
  • Middle Fork Feather Wild and Scenic River: 14.7 mi
  • Dame Shirley: 15.2 mi
Cliffs: 11
Picnic sites: 9
Museums: 7
Waterfalls: 7
  • Fern Falls: 10.0 mi
  • Frazier Falls: 11.3 mi
  • Loves Falls: 16.7 mi
  • Hackmans Falls: 16.9 mi
  • Feather Falls: 23.2 mi
Springs: 6
  • Switchback spring: 16.0 mi
  • Upper Derbec Spring: 23.3 mi
  • Willow Spring: 23.4 mi
  • Derbec Spring: 23.4 mi
  • Holden Spring: 24.0 mi
Historic sites: 4
  • Mammoth Mill: 8.0 mi
  • Downie Chapter 1249: 11.8 mi
  • Sierra Buttes Fire Lookout: 14.4 mi
  • Sierra County Chinese Laborer Memorial: 16.4 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Rest areas: 2
Nature reserves: 1

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 14.0 miles of Mount Fillmore. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount ElwellE 100°2,361 m8.8 mi
Pilot PeakNNW 347°2,271 m3.8 mi
Mount WashingtonE 93°2,236 m7.4 mi
Blue Nose MountainNE 36°2,217 m3.8 mi
GibraltarESE 107°2,210 m4.1 mi
Eureka PeakE 80°2,183 m7.1 mi
Beartrap MountainESE 106°2,172 m2.3 mi
Rattlesnake PeakSE 134°2,168 m4.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0818:4019:16
June solstice05:3619:5520:36
September equinox06:5218:2719:02
December solstice07:2216:0016:43

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F394245505764706965554438
Precip in11.310.710.05.33.61.10.10.20.73.36.811.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Downieville, 12 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 260103 — Mount Fillmore, Sierra County, California.

OpenStreetMap element node/358797778

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