Town Hill is a
mountain range that is located in
Allegany County, Maryland
Allegany County is located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 68,106. Its county seat is Cumberland. The name ''Allegany'' may come from a local Lenape word, ''welhik hane'' or '' ...
and
Bedford and
Fulton counties in
Pennsylvania.
Description
The southern end of this mountain range is 2.25 miles northwest of
Kiefer in Allegany County. It trends northeasterly, and ends about 1.5 miles south of the town of Emmaville in Fulton County. Its highest elevation is 2000 feet.
Interstate 70 crosses Town Hill at a narrow angle to the mountain, following the ridge for four to five miles as it slowly climbs one side and descends the other. In Maryland,
Interstate 68 skirts the southern edge of the mountain while the original alignment of
U.S. Route 40
U.S. Route 40 or U.S. Highway 40 (US 40), also known as the Main Street of America, is a major east–west United States Highway traveling across the United States from the Mountain States to the Mid-Atlantic States. As with most routes wh ...
, now signed as
U.S. Route 40 Scenic
U.S. Route 40 Scenic (US 40 Scenic) is a scenic route of US 40 in the U.S. state of Maryland. US 40 Scenic, which is known for most of its route as National Pike, is the old alignment of US 40 over ...
, crosses over it.
Part of
Buchanan State Forest lies on Town Hill in Fulton County.
South of the
Potomac River in
Hampshire County,
West Virginia, Town Hill rises to a height of .
Geology
Town Hill is held up by the
Mississippian age Pocono Formation, which
dips to the northwest. The Mississippian-Devonian
Rockwell Formation and
Devonian
The Devonian ( ) is a geologic period and system of the Paleozoic era, spanning 60.3 million years from the end of the Silurian, million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Carboniferous, Mya. It is named after Devon, England, whe ...
Catskill Formation are exposed on the southeast flank of the mountain below the Pocono.
Rays Hill, to the east, and Town Hill form a
syncline
In structural geology, a syncline is a fold with younger layers closer to the center of the structure, whereas an anticline is the inverse of a syncline. A synclinorium (plural synclinoriums or synclinoria) is a large syncline with superimpose ...
.
[Map 61: Atlas of Preliminary Geologic Quadrangle Maps of Pennsylvania. Amaranth, Breezewood, and Mench Quadrangles. PA Geological Survey]
Map Index
References
{{Mountains of Maryland
Landforms of Allegany County, Maryland
Mountain ranges of Maryland
Mountain ranges of Pennsylvania
Landforms of Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Landforms of Fulton County, Pennsylvania
Mountain ranges of West Virginia
Landforms of Hampshire County, West Virginia