North Carolina
Yancey
South Toe Township

Mount Mitchell

Mount Mitchell is the highest peak of the and the highest peak in mainland east of the . It is located near in , in the subrange of the Appalachians about 19 miles northeast of .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 6,683 feet
  • Description: Highest mountain in the Eastern United States
  • Also known as: “Attakulla”, “Attakulla Mountain”, “Black Dome”, “Mitchell’s High Peak”, “Mitchell’s Peak”, “Mitchells Peak”, “Mount Attakulla”, “Mountain of Attakulla”, “Mt. Attakulla”, “Mt. Mitchell”, and “The Mt. Attakulla”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Mitchell Museum and Mount Craig.

Museum
Photo: Sweeny, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Peak
, 6,647 feet, is the second highest peak of the and second only to 6,684 feet Mount Mitchell in eastern mainland .

Mount Mitchell

Latitude
35.76496° or 35° 45′ 54″ north
Longitude
-82.26512° or 82° 15′ 54″ west
Elevation
6,683 feet (2,037 metres)
Open location code
867VQP7M+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 357802737
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
4479845
Wiki­data ID
Q615337
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Satellite Map

Discover Mount Mitchell from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Mitchell” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل ميتشيل”
  • Armenian: “Միտչել”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mitçell dağı”
  • Basque: “Mitchell mendia”
  • Catalan: “mont Mitchell”
  • Catalan: “Mont Mitchell”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Mitchell (bukid sa Estados Unidos, North Carolina)”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Chinese: “米切爾峰”
  • Czech: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Danish: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Dutch: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ميتشيل”
  • Finnish: “Mount Mitchell”
  • French: “mont Mitchell”
  • French: “Mont Mitchell”
  • Georgian: “მიტჩელი”
  • Georgian: “მიჩელი”
  • German: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Hausa: “Dutsen Mitchell”
  • Hebrew: “הר מיטשל”
  • Hindi: “मिशेल पर्वत”
  • Italian: “Monte Mitchell”
  • Japanese: “ミッチェル山”
  • Korean: “미첼산”
  • Latvian: “Mičels (kalns)”
  • Latvian: “Mičels”
  • Lithuanian: “Mičelo kalnas”
  • Macedonian: “Мичел”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جبل ميتشيل”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Norwegian: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Persian: “کوه میچل”
  • Polish: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Mitchell”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Mitchell”
  • Russian: “Митчелл”
  • Serbian: “Монт Мичел”
  • Slovak: “Mount Mitchell (Severná Karolína)”
  • Slovak: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Slovenian: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Slovenian: “Mt. Mitchell”
  • Spanish: “Monte Michell”
  • Spanish: “Monte Mitchell”
  • Swahili: “Mlima Mitchell”
  • Swedish: “Mount Mitchell”
  • Ukrainian: “Мітчел”
  • Ukrainian: “Мітчелл”
  • Ukrainian: “Мічел”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ مچل”
  • Venetian: “Monte Mitchell”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mount Mitchell Observation and Picnic.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Mitchell”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.