Brown Mountain
Brown Mountain is a low-lying ridge, approximately 1.5 miles long, in the Pisgah National Forest near Morganton, in western North Carolina, on the border of Burke and Caldwell Counties.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Little Chestnut Mountain and Adams Mountain.
Little Chestnut Mountain
Peak
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Chestnut Mountain is a mountain in the North Carolina High Country, United States, and wholly in the Pisgah National Forest. Its elevation reaches 2,480 feet and is split between Burke County and Caldwell counties.
Adams Mountain
Peak
Photo: Thomson200, CC0.
Adams Mountain is a mountain near the unincorporated community of Collettsville, North Carolina. It is situated wholly within Pisgah National Forest. It reaches 2,490 feet and is nearby Brown Mountain Ridge, which is known for its mysterious Brown Mountain Lights.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Collettsville.
Collettsville
Hamlet
Collettsville is an unincorporated community in Caldwell County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton Metropolitan Statistical Area. Collettsville is situated 4½ miles east of Brown Mountain.
Brown Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,730 feet
- Description: mountain in North Carolina, United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Wilson Creek Township, Caldwell County, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.92893° or 35° 55′ 44″ northLongitude
-81.75895° or 81° 45′ 32″ westElevation
2,730 feet (832 metres)Open location code
867WW6HR+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 263754784OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Vietnamese—“Brown Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Brown Mountain”
- Danish: “Brown Mountain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل برون”
- French: “Brown Mountain”
- German: “Brown Mountain”
- Hebrew: “הר בראון”
- Ladin: “Brown Mountain”
- Urdu: “براؤن ماؤنٹین”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Brown (Bắc Carolina)”
- Vietnamese: “Núi Brown”
- “Brown Mountain”
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