Pilot Mountain

In a distant corner of 's 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.
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  • 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

Latitude
36.3851° or 36° 23′ 7″ north
Longitude
-80.4671° or 80° 28′ 2″ west
Population
1,280
Elevation
1,155 feet (352 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US PM8
Open location code
868X9GPM+35
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154081898
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4485005
Wiki­data ID
Q2023506
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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.