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Mount Ingalls

Mount Ingalls, seen from above at true elevation

Mount Ingalls rises to 2,542 m in California. Dixie Mountain stands 2,537 m to the east-southeast, 19 miles off. The nearest named place is Cinder Spring, a spring 4.5 miles away.

The story

Mount Ingalls is a mountain located in the Northern Sierra Nevada in California. The peak rises to an elevation of 8,376 feet (2,553 m), and is the highest point in Plumas County and Plumas National Forest. Most of the precipitation that falls on the mountain is snow due to the high elevation.

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Wikidata Q6921417, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

What the record says

Elevation
2542 m

How to reach it

Coordinates39.99379, -120.62745

Named places within 25 miles

Peaks
  • Babcock Peak: 7.0 mi
  • Mount Mahogany: 7.1 mi
  • Argentine Rock: 7.7 mi
  • Tower Rock: 7.9 mi
  • Threemile Rock: 8.0 mi
Parks: 16
  • State Game Refuge One-V: 8.7 mi
  • Delleker Park: 14.5 mi
  • Kids Creek Forest: 14.6 mi
  • Mount Hough State Game Refuge: 14.8 mi
  • Clock Park: 15.4 mi
Springs: 10
  • Cinder Spring: 4.5 mi
  • Big Pine Spring: 6.0 mi
  • Section 15 Spring: 6.1 mi
  • Rocky Point Spring: 6.2 mi
  • Oso Kum Spring: 7.8 mi
Museums: 4
Rest areas: 3
Waterfalls: 3
  • Indian Falls: 18.3 mi
  • Fern Falls: 19.5 mi
  • Frazier Falls: 19.9 mi
Cliffs: 2
Hot springs: 2
  • Marble Hot Springs: 21.8 mi
  • Marble Hot Springs: 21.8 mi
Picnic sites: 1
Ghost towns: 1
Historic sites: 1
Nature reserves: 1

Other summits around it

The highest named summits within 18.5 miles of Mount Ingalls. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dixie MountainESE 102°2,537 m18.5 mi
Kettle BenchmarkNNW 335°2,390 m11.6 mi
Kettle RockNNW 333°2,377 m11.4 mi
Tower RockW 271°2,342 m7.9 mi
Smith PeakSSE 149°2,330 m10.1 mi
Grizzly PeakW 280°2,325 m9.3 mi
Eisenheimer PeakNNW 337°2,287 m13.3 mi
Crocker MountainSE 126°2,269 m11.6 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:0718:3919:15
June solstice05:3519:5520:36
September equinox06:5118:2619:01
December solstice07:2215:5816:41

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F313438435159666458483831
Precip in4.23.93.61.51.20.50.30.30.41.12.04.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Portola, 15 mi away.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata
  • USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1658822 — Mount Ingalls, Plumas County, California.

OpenStreetMap element node/358806629

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