Southwest
Arizona
Santa Cruz County

Mount Wrightson

Mount Wrightson is a 9,456-foot peak in the within the , in southern , United States. It was renamed from its original O'odham name: Ce:wi Duag for William Wrightson, a miner and entrepreneur in the region killed by Apaches in the 1865 Battle of Fort Buchanan.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 9,360 feet
  • Description: peak in the Santa Rita Mountains
  • Also known as: “Baldy”, “Baldy Mountain”, “Mt. Wrightson”, “Old Baldy”, and “Santa Rita Peak”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory and Mount Hopkins.

Observatory
Photo: Wars, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an American astronomical owned and operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; it is their largest field installation outside of their main site in .

Peak
Photo: Wars, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a 8,553-foot peak of the range, in , southern . The peak was named after Gilbert Hopkins, who was killed nearby during the Battle of Fort Buchanan in 1865.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Madera Canyon.

Hamlet
is a formerly populated place situated in the of , , United States. It has an estimated elevation of 4,911 feet above sea level.

Mount Wrightson

Latitude
31.69615° or 31° 41′ 46″ north
Longitude
-110.84809° or 110° 50′ 53″ west
Elevation
9,360 feet (2,853 metres)
Open location code
853FM5W2+FQ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2847449990
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
5321754
Wiki­data ID
Q287008
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Satellite Map

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

From Arabic to Urdu—“Mount Wrightson” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل رايتسون”
  • Cebuano: “Mount Wrightson”
  • Chinese: “莱森山”
  • Chinese: “萊森山”
  • Czech: “Mount Wrightson”
  • Dutch: “Mount Wrightson”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت وريجتسون”
  • French: “Mount Wrightson”
  • German: “Mount Wrightson”
  • Ladin: “Mount Wrightson”
  • Persian: “کوه رایتسون”
  • Slovenian: “Mount Wrightson”
  • Urdu: “ماؤنٹ رائٹسن”

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Highlights include Baldy Spring and Bellows Spring.

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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 Wrightson”. Photo: Wars, CC BY-SA 3.0.