Sweat Mountain
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Sweat Mountain rises to 500 m in Georgia. Bear Mountain stands 700 m to the north-northwest, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Sweat Mountain Park, a park 1.2 miles away. 42 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Sweat Mountain is a mountain in far northeastern Cobb County, Georgia, in the suburbs north of Atlanta. The exact GNIS location of its summit is 34°4′1″N 84°27′20″W, and it has an official (USGS) elevation of 1,688 ft (515 m) above mean sea level. It is the second-highest point in the county behind Kennesaw Mountain, and second in the core metro Atlanta area, behind Kennesaw Mountain, which is also in Cobb County. It is fifth if the exurban counties further north are considered. This height has made the mountain very attractive for radio, having several transmitters, radio towers, and antennas, for pagers, cellphones, broadcasting, and amateur radio. The fact that Stone Mountain and Kennesaw Mountain are both protected as parks has led to a proliferation of technology at the top. At the same time, both the antenna farm and the densely packed houses detract from the view of the mountain from surrounding areas of northeast Cobb, south-southeast Cherokee (including much of Woodstock), and western Roswell. The presence of the mountain has inspired the naming of a variety of nearby establishments including: Sweat Mountain Park, Mountain View Regional Library, Mountain View Elementary School, and Mountain View United Methodist Church. Sweat Mountain is also a part of the ridge that divides the Chattahoochee River basin to the south and southeast, from the Lake Allatoona (Etowah River) basin to the north and northwest. From Sweat Mountain, this runs west-southwest through Cobb to Kennesaw Mountain and Lost Mountain.
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Wikidata Q8519041, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 500 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Sweat Mountain Park: 1.2 mi
- Mabry Park: 1.6 mi
- The Mill Office Park: 1.7 mi
- The Mill Office Park: 1.7 mi
- Brooke Falls Neighborhood Park: 1.8 mi
- Mother Mary: 3.6 mi
- Spaceship Earth: 7.7 mi
- Globe: 9.5 mi
- Liquid Sunshine: 9.5 mi
- Balancing Birds: 9.6 mi
- Power-Jackson Cabin: 4.1 mi
- Sewell Mill: 5.6 mi
- Faces of War: 6.2 mi
- Roswell Historic Square: 6.4 mi
- Robert McAfee House: 6.5 mi
- Teaching Museum North: 6.2 mi
- Mimosa Hall: 6.2 mi
- Smith Plantation: 6.2 mi
- Mimms Museum of Technology and Art: 6.9 mi
- The Museum of History and Holocaust Education: 7.2 mi
- Mountain Park Community Garden: 2.5 mi
- St. Michael's Prayer Garden: 3.6 mi
- Crossroads Community Garden at Chestnut Ridge: 3.8 mi
- Garden Plots: 5.1 mi
- LCR Promise Garden: 8.6 mi
- Blackjack Mountain: 6.2 mi
- Kennesaw Mountain: 9.5 mi
- Little Kennesaw Mountain: 10.0 mi
- Pigeon Hill: 10.4 mi
- Pine Mountain: 12.1 mi
- old 1-cylinder engine: 5.0 mi
- Roswell Mill: 6.8 mi
- Sweet Eloise: 10.5 mi
- Warsaw Church: 13.1 mi
- Governor's Mansion: 15.6 mi
- Lynne & Charlie D'Huyvetter Nature Preserve: 5.0 mi
- McGraw Ford Wildlife Management Area: 18.3 mi
- Clyde Shepherd Nature Preserve: 20.5 mi
- Lullwater Conservation Garden: 21.1 mi
- Woodlands Garden: 21.3 mi
- East Cobb Park pavilion: 6.1 mi
- Cooper Branch Day Use Area #1: 17.3 mi
- Cooper Branch Day Use Area #2: 17.5 mi
- Dat Fire Jerk Chicken Up Top Lounge: 22.2 mi
- Mead Road Park: 22.6 mi
- BM Fort: 10.0 mi
- Bridgemill PuttPutt: 10.0 mi
- Bridgemill Beach: 10.1 mi
- Aarlington Beach: 10.6 mi
- Upper Tanyard Creek Swimming Beach: 13.5 mi
- Allatoona Falls: 6.8 mi
- Vickery Creek Falls: 6.8 mi
- Water Wheel: 16.2 mi
- Allatoona: 14.9 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Sweat Mountain. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bear Mountain | NNW 327° | 700 m | 20.3 mi |
| Pine Log Mountain | NNW 329° | 689 m | 20.5 mi |
| Rich Mountain | N 351° | 658 m | 25.0 mi |
| Henderson Mountain | NNW 349° | 602 m | 23.8 mi |
| Sawnee Mountain | NE 55° | 593 m | 20.5 mi |
| Cagle Mountain | N 350° | 582 m | 23.1 mi |
| Hanging Mountain | NW 320° | 581 m | 20.8 mi |
| Kennesaw Mountain | SW 229° | 543 m | 9.5 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:42 | 19:17 | 19:50 |
| June solstice | 06:28 | 20:16 | 20:53 |
| September equinox | 07:27 | 19:03 | 19:36 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 16:55 | 17:33 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 42 | 46 | 53 | 61 | 69 | 76 | 80 | 79 | 73 | 62 | 52 | 45 |
| Precip in | 4.6 | 4.5 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 3.4 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Atlanta Dekalb Peachtree AP, 16 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 323809 — Sweat Mountain, Cobb County, Georgia.
OpenStreetMap element node/358705603
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