Deerhorn Mountain is a peak in the

Sierra Nevada The Sierra Nevada () is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin. The vast majority of the range lies in the state of California, although the Carson Range spur lies primarily ...

Tulare County Tulare County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 473,117. The county seat is Visalia. The county is named for Tulare Lake, once the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes. ...

California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...

. It is located along the Kings-Kern Divide in the southern part of

Kings Canyon National Park Kings Canyon National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, in Fresno and Tulare Counties, California. Originally established in 1890 as General Grant National Park, the park was greatly expanded and renamed to Kings ...

. According to ''Place Names of the Sierra Nevada'' (Peter Browning), it was "named in 1895 by J. N. LeConte because of the resemblance of its double summit to two horns."

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{{TulareCountyCA-geo-stub Mountains of Tulare County, California Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park North American 4000 m summits

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