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Kendall Peak (Colorado)

Coordinates: 37°47′14″N 107°37′06″W / 37.7872134°N 107.6183835°W / 37.7872134; -107.6183835
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Kendall Peak
Kendall Peak (upper left corner) with Kendall Mountain in upper right. View from Little Giant Peak. (1875, by William Henry Jackson)
Highest point
Elevation13,455 ft (4,101 m)[1]
Prominence1,148 ft (350 m)[1]
Parent peakCanby Mountain (13,478 ft)[1]
Isolation4.06 mi (6.53 km)[1]
Coordinates37°47′14″N 107°37′06″W / 37.7872134°N 107.6183835°W / 37.7872134; -107.6183835[2]
Naming
EtymologyJames Kendall
Geography
Kendall Peak is located in Colorado
Kendall Peak
Kendall Peak
Location in Colorado
Kendall Peak is located in the United States
Kendall Peak
Kendall Peak
Kendall Peak (the United States)
CountryUnited States
StateColorado
CountySan Juan
Parent rangeRocky Mountains
San Juan Mountains[3]
Topo mapUSGS Howardsville
Climbing
Easiest routeclass 2 hiking[1]

Kendall Peak is a 13,455-foot-elevation (4,101-meter) mountain summit in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.

Description

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Kendall Peak is located three miles (4.8 km) southeast of the community of Silverton on land administered by the Bureau of Land Management.[4] It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) west of the Continental Divide in the San Juan Mountains which are a subrange of the Rocky Mountains. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Animas River. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,270 feet (390 meters) above Silver Lake in one-half mile (0.8 km) and 4,250 feet (1,300 meters) above the Animas River valley in 2.7 miles (4.3 km). The highest point of Kendall Mountain (13,353 ft) is 0.65 mile north of Kendall Peak.[5]

History

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The mountain's "Kendall Peak" toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names,[2] and has been recorded in publications since at least 1906.[6] The Kendall Mountain name has been recorded since at least 1879.[7] The mountain is named for James Kendall, miner and prospector in the San Juan Mountains in the 1800s.[8][9] The toponym "Mount Kendall" was listed by Henry Gannett in his 1884 "A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States" as having been named by the Hayden and Wheeler surveys. Mount Kendall was listed as having elevations of 13,542-ft and 13,380-ft which roughly correspond to the elevations of Kendall Peak and Kendall Mountain.[10]

Kendall Mountain (center) and Kendall Peak (right) from the southwest

Climate

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According to the Köppen climate classification system, Kendall Peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers.[11] Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter and as thunderstorms in summer, with a dry period in late spring. This climate supports the Kendall Mountain Ski Area.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Kendall Peak - 13,455' CO". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Kendall Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
  3. ^ "Kendall Peak, Colorado". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
  4. ^ BLM Ownership map, Silverton, Colorado, blm.gov
  5. ^ "Kendall Mountain - 13,353' CO". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
  6. ^ Henry Gannett, United States Geological Survey (1906), A Gazetteer of Colorado, US Government Printing Office, p. 96.
  7. ^ Engineering and Mining Journal, Volume 28, 1879, p. 337.
  8. ^ Jerry Grant (2020), Grants Mining Districts of the Western United States, Volume 1, Xlibris Corporation
  9. ^ Kendall Gulch, 4x4explore.com, Retrieved June 30, 2023
  10. ^ Henry Gannett (1884), A Dictionary of Altitudes in the United States, US Government Printing Office, p. 62.
  11. ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.
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