Most Popular Mountain/Hill names in NH?

[Becca M]

Been wondering what are the most popular current names.... Owl's Head? Sugarloaf? Black? Rattlesnake? Bear? etc.? Anybody know a way to find out for sure? I don't want to pore over my Gazetteer if the data is out there. (I did search this forum for the info but couldn't find it).

I was thinking it would be cool hike ALL the Owl's Heads, or, whatever...

 

[Tom Rankin]

Been wondering what are the most popular current names.... Owl's Head? Sugarloaf? Black? Rattlesnake? Bear? etc.? Anybody know a way to find out for sure? I don't want to pore over my Gazetteer if the data is out there. (I did search this forum for the info but couldn't find it).

I was thinking it would be cool hike ALL the Owl's Heads, or, whatever...

I'm working on all the Tom's in the Northeast/USA!

 

[bikehikeskifish]

All the mountains appear in my Garmin Map, using the free topo (http://www.gameandfishnetwork.com/NE-topo-map.html). There must be a way to get the POIs out of the database, but I don't know off the top of my head. I would spend time going down this road myself before pouring over a book. Maybe there is a POI file used to load into the mapping software somewhere.

Tim

 

[Mohamed Ellozy]

Tim,

POIs in the map you refer to come from GNIS (see link you supplied )

 

[Jay H]

There are an awful lot of "Roundtop"s in Catskills, if you care to be a little loose in the naming (allowing pronouns) I haven't noticed the propensity of Roundtops in New England though I can't really say that I have seriously looked either... Might just be a catskills thing.

Haystack is another popular mtn name in many different places as well as Sugarloaf.

Jay

 

[natron]

bald's in Maine?

anyone know how many?

 

[spencer]

Using the GNIS "summits", there are:

15 Pine Hills
14 Oak Hills
11 Bald Hills
11 Beech Hills
10 Bald Mountains
9 Prospect Hills
8 Peaked Hills
8 Sugar Hills
etc.

Interestingly, there are 6 Meetinghouse Hills, 5 Mounts Misery, 4 Bible Hills,

Overall, there are 223 names attributed to more than one "summit."
I'm not going to list them all, but go ahead and ask about your favorite name.

 

[spencer]

anyone know how many [Balds in Maine]?

17 (2nd highest count).

The most frequent summit name in Maine is Oak Hill, with 32.
If you add up Hedgehog Hills and Hedgehog Mountains, there are 21, which would be the 2nd highest count in Maine.

There are 9 Bald Mountains and another 7 Bald Hills in VT.

 

[cooperhill]

Haystack comes to mind as a common one in NH.

 

[TCD]

Over here in the Adirondacks we are overrun with "Buck Mtn"s. We also have two named Nippletop within a few miles of each other.

 

[dr_wu002]

I'm going to go with "Mt. Tom" -- there's the one in Zealand Notch and also one by me in Easthampton MA.

-Dr. Wu

 

[expat]

Makes sense to me

"We also have two named Nippletop within a few miles of each other."

Sounds right.

 

[bikehikeskifish]

Haystack comes to mind as a common one in NH.

6 NH summits have some form of Haystack in the name. 4 are simply "Haystack Mountain", Bartlett Haystack and Little Haystack Mountain are the other 2.

Tim
p.s. Thanks, Mohamed... I knew the data was there someplace. Didn't have time to look for it over breakfast. I will add it to my collection of databases

 

[Becca M]

very cool database.... found 8 variants of sugarloaves and only about 5 Owl-somethings. NEAT!!!

 

[Amicus]

[Bald in Maine] 17 (2nd highest count).

The most frequent summit name in Maine is Oak Hill, with 32.
If you add up Hedgehog Hills and Hedgehog Mountains, there are 21, which would be the 2nd highest count in Maine.

You can also use the "Find" feature on Nat Geo Topo, searching the "Summits, Cliffs and Rock Formations" file for a particular State. Searching "Bald" for Maine, I found 32, ignoring compounds and three-word names, which probably ranks it second to "Oak" for Maine (for which I get 37 hits, using this method). The 32 "Balds" comprise:

- 17 Mountains,
- 5 Hills,
- 3 Peaks,
- 2 Ledges,
- 2 Heads
- 1 Rock,
- 1 Bluff, and
- 1 Pate (not a "Baldpate").

For New Hampshire, my top 5 using this method are:

1. Bald: 27,
2. Pine: 20
3. Oak: 17
4. Prospect: 16, and
5. Beech: 13.

 

[bikehikeskifish]

Here are the "Summits" grouped by name including all those that appear 3 or more times. 2 or more increases the results by about 140.

select feature, count(feature) HowMany
  from GNIS 
  group by feature 
  order by HowMany DESC, feature ASC

feature			HowMany
Pine Hill			16
Oak Hill			14
Bald Hill			11
Beech Hill			11
Bald Mountain		10
Prospect Hill		9
Peaked Hill			8
Sugar Hill			8
Hedgehog Hill		7
Page Hill			7
Rattlesnake Hill		7
The Pinnacle		7
Birch Hill			6
Black Mountain		6
Davis Hill			6
Great Hill			6
Long Hill			6
Meetinghouse Hill		6
North Peak			6
Bear Hill			5
Brown Hill			5
Green Mountain		5
Hoyt Hill			5
Hubbard Hill			5
Kimball Hill			5
Mount Misery		5
Prospect Mountain	5
Rattlesnake Mountain	5
Smith Hill			5
South Peak			5
Bible Hill			4
Green Hill			4
Hayes Hill			4
Haystack Mountain	4
Horse Hill			4
Howe Hill			4
Jones Hill			4
Mount Pleasant		4
Mount Tug			4
Parker Hill			4
Stevens Hill			4
Sunset Hill			4
Thompson Hill		4
Walnut Hill			4
Wilson Hill			4
Bald Knob			3
Barton Hill			3
Bean Hill			3
Bear Mountain		3
Beauty Hill			3
Bennett Hill			3
Black Hill			3
Bunker Hill			3
Burnt Hill			3
Chestnut Hill		3
Clement Hill			3
Deer Mountain		3
Eaton Hill			3
Gove Hill			3
Hog Hill			3
Hogback Mountain	3
Holt Hill			3
Kenyon Hill			3
Kingsbury Hill		3
Middle Mountain		3
Mount Hope			3
Mount Pisgah		3
Parsonage Hill		3
Peaked Mountain		3
Philbrick Hill			3
Pond Hill			3
Potato Hill			3
Proctor Hill			3
Round Hill			3
Round Mountain		3
Sargent Hill			3
Silver Hill			3
Smith Mountain		3
Spaulding Hill		3
Sugarloaf			3
Towne Hill			3
West Hill			3

Tim

 

[RoySwkr]

I was thinking it would be cool hike ALL the Owl's Heads, or, whatever...

I have an old trip report here on hiking my 4th Owls Head, which is on the shore of Newfound Lake

But I later found yet another near Squam I haven't been to yet, so you can still be #1 on your next non-list

 

[Raymond]

What’s the story behind all the Tumbledown Dicks in Maine? (Haven’t counted them, but I’ve seen several on maps.)

 

[Becca M]

I have an old trip report here on hiking my 4th Owls Head, which is on the shore of Newfound Lake

But I later found yet another near Squam I haven't been to yet, so you can still be #1 on your next non-list

Where is an old Owl's Head on the shore of Newfound Lake???? (not a bar/restaurant, right???? )

 

[MichaelJ]

Where is an old Owl's Head on the shore of Newfound Lake???? (not a bar/restaurant, right???? )

It's shown on the USGS topo: west shore, northwest corner, just south of Roger's Ledge and Hebron Bay.