Lead Hill is a

peak Peak or The Peak may refer to: Basic meanings Geology * Mountain peak ** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics * Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion * Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-di ...

in southwestern Wright County in the

Ozarks The Ozarks, also known as the Ozark Mountains, Ozark Highlands or Ozark Plateau, is a physiographic region in the U.S. states of Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma and the extreme southeastern corner of Kansas. The Ozarks cover a significant port ...

of southern

Missouri Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas t ...

. The peak has an elevation of .''Cedar Gap, Missouri,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1951 (1985 rev.) Lead Hill lies just to the east of the community of Cedar Gap and about west of Mansfield. Lead Hill is an erosional remnant marking the boundary between the Springfield Plateau to the northwest, the Salem Plateau to the northeast and the rugged White River Hills region of the Ozarks to the south. The hill is on the drainage divide between the

Gasconade River The Gasconade River is about longU.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 31, 2011 and is located in central and south-central Missouri. The Gasconade River begins in the Oz ...

to the north ( Missouri River watershed) and

Bryant Creek Bryant Creek (also known as Bryant River) is a stream in the Ozarks of Missouri. Bryant Creek has headwaters just west of Lead Hill and southeast Cedar Gap in southwestern Wright County and flows in a southeasterly direction through Douglas Cou ...

to the south ( White River watershed). The

BNSF BNSF Railway is one of the largest freight railroads in North America. One of seven North American Class I railroads, BNSF has 35,000 employees, of track in 28 states, and nearly 8,000 locomotives. It has three transcontinental routes that ...

Railroad line passes just south of the peak.''Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer,'' DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 63, In the 1870s a

lead Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cu ...

mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or digging * Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging *Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine Grammar *Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun ...

was located on the mountain."Lead Hill Mines" in Wright, MO, Lead Past Producer
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