County Highpoint Information Maps

Welcome to the County Highpointers information map page. The following list both describes and provides hyperlinks to maps of an informational nature of interest to the county highpointing community. Certain links lead to lists rather than a map, and, in most cases, a corresponding map exists anyways.

Information Map Links

  • Large County Map   Produced by the United States Census Bureau, this map portrays
    all counties and their statistical equivalents (2.1 megabytes).

  • Google Earth Images   Google Earth is an amazing software application that must be
    seen to be appreciated.

    Links are provided to images for the county highpoints of most states;
    for regional collections of states; and for the entire contiguous USA.

    There are external links to other Google Earth images relevant to
    both highpointing and topographic prominence.

  • "Pinpoint" Maps   Sponsored by Dave Covill, these maps display county highpoints
    by red dots. Nearly complete, the maps lack only information from
    parts of Louisiana and Mississippi. A main, USA-wide map is accompanied
    by a 3 x 3 grid on nine regional maps for higher resolution.

    These maps facilitate rapid location of highpoints for planning purposes,
    e.g. which counties may be efficiently combined in the same day; back-to-back days;
    or on the same trip.

    The maps are clickable to facilitate navigation in-between them.

  • Collective Highpointer Completion Map  

  • Virgin Counties Map   (multiple area color scheme on the map itself)

  • Multiple Highpoints Map   - by Jon Mann

  • Access Category Map               access category definitions
    A work in progress by Edward Earl that shows access restrictions by color code.
    E-mail him with highpoint access information after removing the ".county"
    portion of the address (present to foil web crawlers).

  • Ownership Category Map
    A work in progress by Ken Oeser that shows county highpoint ownership by color code.

  • First Ascent Map
    A work in progress by Ken Oeser that identifies first ascent highpointers by color code.

  • Elevation Map   (color-coded in thousand foot intervals as described by a legend)
    - by Aaron Maizlish

  • Highest 50-100-150+ Elevation Map                     the corresponding lists
    A work by Dave Covill showing the highest 166 county highpoints in all fifty states
    (everything above 10,000 feet); and the highest 157 eastern highpoints (all above 3,000 feet)
    in color-coded groups of 50 counties.

  • High Five Map   (The five highest county highpoints in each state.)
    - by Jerry Brekhus

  • Low Five Map   (The five lowest county highpoints in each state.)
    - by Michael Schwartz

  • Elevation Gain Map                 elevation gain discussion and lists                 elevation gain rules
    A work in progress by Edward Earl using a definition of elevation gain
    determined as an "average" result after polling active county highpointers
    for their individual elevation gain definition preferences.

    E-mail him with elevation gain information after removing the ".county"
    portion of the address (present to foil web crawlers).

  • County Highpoint Prominence Map
    A work in progress with contributions from Bob Bolton, Jerry Brekhus, Edward Earl,
    Andy Martin, and Adam Helman.

  • State Highpoint-Prominence-Isolation Map
    By Edward Earl, this map portrays the counties containing each of three state superlatives.

  • Class Ratings Map                     class ratings definitions
    A work in progress by Edward Earl for the least technical route to each highpoint.
    E-mail him with class ratings information after removing the ".county"
    portion of the address (present to foil web crawlers).

  • Difficult Counties (based upon the Apex and 5,000+ foot required effort lists)
    apex peaks map           5,000+ ft required effort map

  • County Highpoint "Triple Crown" Map                     Triple Crown List (offsite)
    Triple Crown county highpoints are simultaneously APEX,
    5,000+ feet of gain, and ultra (5,000+ foot) prominences.
    There are only ten such triple crown summits in the lower forty-eight states.

    County highpoints with at least one of these descriptors are also shown with colors
    corresponding to the specific descriptor combination, e.g. cyan
    represents the combination of 5,000+ feet of gain and ultra prominence.

  • Easiest County in each State Map                     Easiest County in each State List

  • Easiest Counties Map   - by John Mitchler       explanation
    Easiest Counties Lists     (A-M)     (N-Z)

  • Two-Fer Lists
    Two-Fer Map   - by Ron Tagliapietra and Dave Covill

  • High Five Average Elevation Map                     Average County Elevation Lists
    Carl Mills has determined the average elevations of counties throughout the United States.
    The map portrays the counties with the highest five average elevations in each state.
    The lists include dozens of additional counties.

  • Highest Five Standard Deviation in County Elevation Map           Standard Deviation in County Elevation Lists
    Carl Mills has determined the counties with the largest standard deviations in elevation.
    The map portrays the counties with the highest five standard deviations in elevation for each state.

    The lists enumerate the highest standard deviation county for each state;
    and the highest standard deviation counties regardless of state.

  • "Helman Counties" Map                   Helman Counties List
    A map by Jerry Brekhus showing the county in each state with the
    greatest elevation difference between its highpoint and lowpoint.

  • Lowest Fractional Relief Map
    A map by Carl Mills showing the fifty counties with the
    smallest values of the fraction (highpoint elevation - lowpoint elevation) / lowpoint elevation.

  • Largest County in Each State Map
    A map by Jerry Brekhus showing the county in each state with the largest area.

  • Highpointer Locations Map                   Highpointer Locations List
    A map and list by Scott Traci, from 2005, showing the numbers of highpointers in each county.

  • State High Points

  • Topographic Map Links   A work in progress by Glen Bock that provides links
    to topographic maps for county highpoints.

    Latitudes and longitudes of highpoints are found within
    the addresses of the hyperlinks to the topographic maps.

    Azimuthal Equidistant Projections portray great circle routes as straight lines....

  • New York City   Scale is 50 km / centimeter. Distance circles are shown every
    100 km to 500 km. Compass bearings are superimposed.

  • northeastern USA   Scale is 100 km / centimeter.

  • North America   Scale is 400 km / centimeter.

  • World centered on Del Mar in San Diego County, California.
    Scale is 2,000 km / centimeter. Distance circles are shown every
    4,000 km to 20,000 km - the distance to the antipodal point off Madagascar
    in the Indian Ocean. Compass bearings are superimposed.

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