White Top
White Top rises to 1,237 m in West Virginia. Cheat Mountain stands 1,481 m to the south-southwest, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Gaudineer Scenic Area, a park 1.8 miles away. Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike passes 0.4 miles off. 121 named places lie within 25 miles, 55 of them named summits.
The story
White Top is a knob and spur of Cheat Mountain in southeastern Randolph County, West Virginia, USA. Sitting at an elevation of 4,085 feet (1,245 m), it is located just west of the Shavers Fork of Cheat River and Cheat Bridge. While White Top was originally crossed by the Staunton–Parkersburg Turnpike, modern-day U.S. Route 250 skirts the base of the knob beside Shavers Fork to the north and east.
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Wikidata Q14714389, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 1,237 m
How to reach it
- 0.4 mi off the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, National
- 0.3 mi off the Cheat Mountain Backway
- 4.3 mi off the Back Mountain Backway
- 8.2 mi off the Camp Allegheny Backway
Overlooks nearby
- Little Laurel Overlook · 25 mi
121 named places within 25 miles
- Gaudineer Knob: 1.9 mi
- Hutton Knob: 2.3 mi
- Barton Knob: 2.9 mi
- Crouch Knob: 5.8 mi
- Burner Mountain: 7.0 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 1.8 mi
- Gaudineer Knob Recreation Site: 1.9 mi
- Cheat Wildlife Management Area: 2.7 mi
- Beckys Creek Wildlife Management Area: 4.9 mi
- Widney Park: 6.5 mi
- Donald R. Gaudineer Memorial: 1.9 mi
- Camp Bartow Historic Site: 8.2 mi
- Powerhouse: 15.6 mi
- Boiler House: 15.6 mi
- Cass: 15.9 mi
- Cool Spring: 3.6 mi
- Locust Spring: 12.8 mi
- Spruce Mountain Spring: 18.8 mi
- Pat Spring: 18.9 mi
- Lorraine Burke Spring: 19.8 mi
- High Falls of Cheat: 9.9 mi
- High Falls: 11.5 mi
- Upper Falls of Seneca Creek: 22.2 mi
- Small waterfall: 22.3 mi
- Falls of Seneca: 24.7 mi
- NRAO Science Center: 13.8 mi
- Randolph County Museum: 14.9 mi
- West Virginia Railroad Museum: 20.7 mi
- Charles P. Jones Museum: 21.6 mi
- Helvetia Village Historic District: 18.4 mi
- Rexrode’s Sugar Orchard: 19.4 mi
- Puffenbarger Sugar Camp: 19.5 mi
- Morning Glories and Moonflowers: 21.7 mi
- Locust Springs: 12.9 mi
- Bear Haven Day Use Area: 23.6 mi
- Gaudineer Scenic Area: 1.9 mi
- Gertrude: 5.8 mi
- Raven Rocks: 10.8 mi
- H.G. Davis "Iron Horse" Statue: 21.0 mi
- Allendale Nursery: 23.3 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of White Top. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheat Mountain | SSW 208° | 1,481 m | 14.4 mi |
| Thorny Benchmark | SSW 201° | 1,481 m | 17.0 mi |
| Bald Knob | SSW 194° | 1,476 m | 12.6 mi |
| Tygart Valley North | SSW 211° | 1,457 m | 12.5 mi |
| Beech Flat Knob | SSW 210° | 1,433 m | 10.1 mi |
| Snyder Knob | SW 218° | 1,432 m | 7.7 mi |
| Mace Knob | SSW 211° | 1,425 m | 14.1 mi |
| Pharis Knob | ENE 59° | 1,410 m | 15.7 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:57 | 19:32 |
| June solstice | 05:56 | 20:08 | 20:48 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:43 | 19:18 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:20 | 17:02 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 29 | 36 | 47 | 56 | 64 | 67 | 66 | 60 | 49 | 38 | 30 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.0 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Bartow 1S, 9 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidata- USGS Geographic Names Information System feature 1555972 — White Top, Randolph County, West Virginia.
OpenStreetMap element node/356525399
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