Pilot Mountain
In a distant corner of North Carolina's Piedmont is an unusual mountaintop that has been used as a navigation aid since time immemorial. Named Pilot Mountain, the peak is now the main feature of a state park, and gives its name to a nearby town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 1,280 residents
- Description: town in Surry County, North Carolina, United States
- Also known as: “Pilot Mountain, NC”, “Pilot Mountain, North Carolina”, and “Pilotmountain”
- Postal code: 27041
Pilot Mountain
- Categories: town in the United States, city in North Carolina, and locality
- Location: Pilot Township, Surry, North Carolina, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.3851° or 36° 23′ 7″ northLongitude
-80.4671° or 80° 28′ 2″ westPopulation
1,280Elevation
1,155 feet (352 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PM8Open location code
868X9GPM+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 154081898OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Pilot Mountain” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيلوت مونتين”
- Basque: “Pilot Mountain”
- Catalan: “Pilot Mountain”
- Cebuano: “Pilot Mountain”
- Chechen: “Пайлот-Маунтен”
- Chinese: “Pilot Mountain”
- Chinese: “派勒特芒廷 (北卡羅萊納州)”
- Chinese: “派勒特芒廷”
- Dutch: “Pilot Mountain”
- French: “Pilot Mountain”
- German: “Pilot Mountain”
- Gilaki: “پایلت مأؤنتن (کلسيايي کارؤلینا)”
- Gilaki: “پایلت مأؤنتن”
- Haitian: “Pilot Mountain, Kawolin dinò”
- Hungarian: “Pilot Mountain”
- Italian: “Pilot Mountain”
- Japanese: “パイロット・マウンテン”
- Ladin: “Pilot Mountain”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pilot Mountain”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pilot Mountain”
- Norwegian: “Pilot Mountain”
- Persian: “پایلت ماونتن”
- Polish: “Pilot Mountain”
- Portuguese: “Pilot Mountain”
- Serbian: “Пајлот Маунтин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pilot Mountain, North Carolina”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pilot Mountain”
- Spanish: “Pilot Mountain”
- Swedish: “Pilot Mountain, North Carolina”
- Swedish: “Pilot Mountain”
- Tatar: “Пайлот-Маунтен”
- Ukrainian: “Пайлот-Маунтен”
- Uzbek: “Pilot Mountain, North Carolina”
- Uzbek: “Pilot Mountain”
- Uzbek: “Пилот Моунтаин”
- Volapük: “Pilot Mountain, North Carolina”
- Volapük: “Pilot Mountain”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Pilot Mountain”. Photo: CZmarlin, CC BY 3.0.