Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a

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located in the Sierra Nevada of

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. The boundary between Inyo and Tulare counties runs along the crest of the Sierra, across Mount Le Conte. The mountain was named in 1895 for Joseph Le Conte (1823–1901), the first professor of

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and natural history at the

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Geography

Mount Le Conte is about southeast of Mount Whitney, and is flanked to the northwest by Mount Mallory, and to the southeast by

Mount Corcoran Mount Corcoran is a mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. It is situated on the boundary between Tulare County and Inyo County, as well as the boundary between Sequoia National Park and John Mui ...

. The southwest side of Mount Le Conte drains into Rock Creek, thence into the

Kern River The Kern River, previously Rio de San Felipe, later La Porciuncula, is an Endangered, Wild and Scenic river in the U.S. state of California, approximately long. It drains an area of the southern Sierra Nevada mountains northeast of Bakersfield ...

, which ends in the Central Valley of California. The north side of Mount Le Conte drains into Meysan Creek, thence into Lone Pine Creek, which ends in the

Owens Valley Owens Valley ( Numic: ''Payahǖǖnadǖ'', meaning "place of flowing water") is an arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States. It is located to the east of the Sierra Nevada, west of the White Mountains and Iny ...

. The east side of Le Conte drains into Tuttle Creek, and thence into Diaz Lake in the Owens Valley. The southwest side is in

Sequoia National Park Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief ...

while the north and east is in the

John Muir Wilderness The John Muir Wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the Sierra Nevada of California for , in the Inyo and Sierra National Forests. Established in 1964 by the Wilderness Act and named for naturalist John Muir, it encompa ...

of the

Inyo National Forest Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney, the highest po ...

. The

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enters the park from the south at Siberian Pass about south of Mount Le Conte, and runs through the park a few miles west of the Sierra Crest.

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* Mountains of Sequoia National Park Mountains of the John Muir Wilderness Mountains of Inyo County, California Mountains of Tulare County, California Mountains of Northern California {{TulareCountyCA-geo-stub

Geography

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