Name: Electric Peak

 

County: Park County, Montana

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude: 1105015W

Latitude: 450019N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 10961/3341

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Peak in Yellowstone Park, named by Henry Gannett, United States geographer, on account of a severe electrical storm encountered there.

Source:Gannett, 1905

 

Peak, altitude 11,155 feet, Yellowstone National Park, Wyo. ... . Named by United States Geological Survey in 1872. Mr. Gannett of the Hayden Party, leader of the mountain climbers, ascended in an electrical storm and suffered from extraordinary electrical phenomena, compelling descent.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Electric Peak

 

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Photograph by J.P. Iddings, U. S. Geological Survey

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Electric Peak, viewed from the south, 11,100 feet altitude. Circa 1890.

U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library

 

 


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