Raccoon Hill

Raccoon Hill is a peak in Salisbury, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut and has an elevation of 1,263 feet. Raccoon Hill is situated nearby to the hamlet Amesville, as well as near Falls Village.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scoville Library and Great Falls.

Scoville Library

Library

Photo: Phinisi Stuart, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Scoville Memorial Library is the public library of Salisbury, Connecticut. Established in 1803, it was the first in the United States open to the public free of charge.

Great Falls

Waterfall

Photo: Jgcoleman, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Great Falls is a waterfall formed along the Housatonic River at Falls Village in the town of Canaan amidst Connecticut's Litchfield Hills. Great Falls is the highest volume waterfall in the state, though a great deal of its potential water volume is diverted immediately upstream during most of the year for hydro-electric power generation.

Salisbury School

School

Salisbury School is an elite all-boys, private college-preparatory boarding school in Salisbury, Connecticut. It was founded in 1901 by the Reverend George E.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Falls Village and Lakeville.

Falls Village

Village

Photo: Doncram, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Falls Village is a village and census-designated place in the town of Canaan in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, Falls Village had a population of 383.

Lakeville

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.5.

Lakeville is a census-designated place in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States, close to Dutchess County, New York. It is within the town of Salisbury, but has its own ZIP Code.

Canaan

Photo: Doncram, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Canaan is in the Litchfield Hills, otherwise known as the Connecticut Berkshires, in northern Litchfield County.

Raccoon Hill

Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,263 feet
Description: mountain in Connecticut, United States of America
Categories: mountain and landform
Location: Salisbury, Northwest Hills Planning Region, Litchfield Hills, Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.97537° or 41° 58′ 31″ north

Longitude

-73.39568° or 73° 23′ 44″ west

Elevation

1,263 feet (385 metres)

Open location code

87H8XJG3+4P

OpenStreetMap ID

node 359267950

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=peak

GeoNames ID

4841263

Wikidata ID

Q31808480

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Dutch—“Raccoon Hill” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Raccoon Hill”
Dutch: “Raccoon Hill”

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Localities in the Area

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