Name: Mount Langford

 

County: Park

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1100637W

Latitude: 442425N

 

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Elevation: 10623/3238

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Mountain in Yellowstone Park, named for the first superintendent of the park, Nathaniel Pitt Langford.

Source: Gannett, 1905

 

Mountain, ... Yellowstone National Park ... . Named by the Washburn party, 1870, for N. P. Langford, first superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park, and who made the first authentic sketch of the Yellowstone Lake from the summit of this mountain.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932

 

Named by the Washburn Party in 1870 for the Honorable Nathaniel Pitt Langford, first superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park.

Source: Chittenden

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Plenty Coups Peak

 

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