Table Mountain is located near the northern end of the

Great Western Divide The Great Western Divide is a Sierra Nevada mountain range that forms part of the border between the Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks. Some of the summits of the Great Western Divide reach well over . The High Sierra Trail crosses the ra ...

, a sub-range of 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 ...

in California. The summit marks a point on the boundary between Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks and is south of Thunder Mountain and northeast of

Midway Mountain Midway Mountain is a remote mountain summit located on the Great Western Divide of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, in Tulare County of northern California. It is set on the common boundary that Kings Canyon National Park shares with Sequoia N ...

Clarence King Clarence Rivers King (January 6, 1842 – December 24, 1901) was an American geologist, mountaineer and author. He was the first director of the United States Geological Survey from 1879 to 1881. Nominated by Republican President Rutherford B. Hay ...

of the Whitney Survey mentioned in his notes that "At one place the ridge reat Western Divideforms a level table." The name Table appeared on

Charles F. Hoffmann Charles Frederick Hoffmann (February 29, 1838 – June 20, 1913) was a German-American topographer working in California U.S. from 1860 to 1880. Life Hoffmann was born in Frankfurt, Germany on February 29, 1838. After receiving an education in ...

's map of 1873. In 1881 the mountain was named Mount Hazen in honor of General Hazen, the Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army. In 1905, the

Board on Geographic Names The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior. The purpose of the board is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geographic names throughout the federal governm ...

recognized the name Table Mountain. This name appeared on both the ''Tehipite'' and the ''Mt. Whitney''

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30' maps published in 1905 and 1907 respectively. It is the tallest of the 21 peaks named Table Mountain in California. Table Mountain, east aspect

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* Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park Mountains of Sequoia National Park Mountains of Tulare County, California Mountains of Northern California {{TulareCountyCA-geo-stub