Big Round Top
Big Round Top is a boulder-strewn hill notable as the topographic high point of the Gettysburg Battlefield and for 1863 American Civil War engagements for which Medals of Honor were awarded.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gettysburg National Cemetery and Pennsylvania State Memorial, Gettysburg.
Gettysburg National Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Henryhartley, Public domain.
Gettysburg National Cemetery, originally called Soldiers' National Cemetery, is a United States national cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, created for Union army casualties sustained in the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Pennsylvania State Memorial, Gettysburg
Monument
Photo: Midnightdreary, Public domain.
The Pennsylvania State Memorial is a monument in Gettysburg National Military Park that commemorates the 34,530 Pennsylvania soldiers who fought in the July 1 to 3, 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Cemetery Hill
Peak
Cemetery Hill is a landform on the Gettysburg Battlefield that was the scene of fighting each day of the Battle of Gettysburg. The northernmost part of the Army of the Potomac defensive "fish-hook" line, the hill is gently sloped and provided a site for American Civil War artillery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Round Top and Devil’s Den.
Little Round Top
Locality
Little Round Top is the smaller of two rocky hills south of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania—the companion to the adjacent, taller hill named Big Round Top. It was the site of an unsuccessful assault by Confederate troops against the Union left flank on July 2, 1863, the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg, during the American Civil War.
Devil’s Den
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Devil's Den is a boulder-strewn hill on the south end of Houck's Ridge at Gettysburg Battlefield, used by artillery and sharpshooters on the second day of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.
Round Top
Hamlet
Round Top is a populated place in Adams County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, near Little Round Top. It is notable for two Battle of Gettysburg hospitals, the 1884 Round Top Station, and several battlefield commemorative era attractions such as Round Top Park and the Round Top Museum.
Big Round Top
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,205 feet
- Description: hill in Pennsylvania, United States of America
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Toboyne Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.78675° or 39° 47′ 12″ northLongitude
-77.23941° or 77° 14′ 22″ westElevation
2,205 feet (672 metres)Open location code
87F4QQP6+M6OpenStreetMap ID
node 7128731210OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Dutch—“Big Round Top” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Big Round Top”
- Danish: “Big Round Top”
- Dutch: “Big Round Top”
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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 “Big Round Top”. Photo: Nicholas A. Tonelli, CC BY 2.0.