Furnace Mountain
Furnace Mountain is the tallest peak of Catoctin Mountain in Loudoun County, Virginia. It rises steeply from the southern banks of the Potomac River across from Point of Rocks, Maryland and continues southward for 1 mile, reaching an elevation of 891 feet before falling to a gap between it and an unnamed peak of 800 feet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Arbogastlw, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Point of Rocks station.
Point of Rocks station
Railway station
Photo: Samual Ruaat, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Point of Rocks is a historic passenger rail station on the MARC Brunswick Line between Washington, D.C., and Martinsburg, WV, located at Point of Rocks, Frederick County, Maryland, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Point of Rocks and Taylorstown.
Point of Rocks
Village
Photo: Pollinator, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Point of Rocks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Frederick County, Maryland. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 1,466.
Taylorstown
Hamlet
Taylorstown is a small community in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States, built on the banks of Catoctin Creek and the surrounding hillside, about two miles south of the Potomac River.
Scattersville
Locality
Scattersville is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. Scattersville is located to the northwest of Lucketts along the eastern flanks of Catoctin Mountain.
Furnace Mountain
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 883 feet
- Description: mountain in Virginia, United States of America
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Loudoun County, Northern Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.26454° or 39° 15′ 52″ northLongitude
-77.5536° or 77° 33′ 13″ westElevation
883 feet (269 metres)Open location code
87F47C7W+RHOpenStreetMap ID
node 11373852163OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ladin—“Furnace Mountain” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Furnace Mountain”
- Dutch: “Furnace Mountain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فورناس (امريكا)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل فورناس”
- Ladin: “Furnace Mountain”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Furnace Mountain Presbyterian Church and Furnace Mountain Cemetery.
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