A signal mountain or signal peak is a mountain suited to sending and receiving visual signals, either from its topographic prominence and isolation or from being located where signal communications are most needed. For example, Tennessee's Signal Mountain was used by Native Americans to send fire and smoke signals across the Tennessee Valley. It was also used by the Union Army as a visual communications station during the American Civil War. Mount Lassic in California has low prominence but is also known as Signal Peak due to the heliograph station that was located on this peak around 1900. And the highest peak in the Pine Valley Range, Utah's Signal Peak, is "supposedly named because of its use in World War II when beacons were placed on the mountain to guide airplanes at night."[1]
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edit- ^ "Utah County Highpoints > Signal Peak". SummitPost.Org. 2012 [2004]. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Alberta)". Bivouac.com.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Shelby County, Alabama)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Valdez-Cordova, Alaska)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Maricopa County, Arizona)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Pinal County, Arizona)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Peak (Humboldt County, California)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Peak (Orange County, California)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Signal Peak (Orange County, California)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Peak (Tahoe National Forest)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Coos County, New Hampshire)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Grafton County, New Hampshire)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Hamilton County, Tennessee)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Scott County, Tennessee)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Guadalupe Peak". Datasheet for NGS Station CD0994. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved 2001-05-24.
- ^ "Guadalupe Peak". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2001-05-24.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Texas)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Signal Peak (Utah)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Vermont)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Virginia)". Peakbagger.com.
- ^ "Signal Mountain (Wyoming)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ DeCook, Kenneth James (1963). "Geology and ground-water resources of Hays County, Texas". Water Supply Paper (1612). U.S. Department of the Interior. doi:10.3133/wsp1612. hdl:2027/uc1.31210023539883.