Table Mountain is located near the northern end of the
Great Western Divide
The Great Western Divide is a Sierra Nevada mountain range located largely in Sequoia National Park. Some of the summits of the Great Western Divide reach well over . The High Sierra Trail crosses the range at Kaweah Gap from Sequoia National Pa ...
, 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 primari ...
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. ...
of the
Whitney Survey
The California Geological Survey, previously known as the California Division of Mines and Geology, is the California state geologic agency.
History
Although it was not until 1880 that the California State Mining Bureau, predecessor to the Cal ...
mentioned in his notes that "At one place the ridge
reat Western Divideforms a level table." The name Table appeared on
Charles F. Hoffmann'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 gover ...
recognized the name Table Mountain.
This name appeared on both the ''Tehipite'' and the ''Mt. Whitney''
USGS
The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an government agency, agency of the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geograp ...
30' maps published in 1905 and 1907 respectively.
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It is the tallest of the 21 peaks named Table Mountain in California.
References
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Mountains of Kings Canyon National Park
Mountains of Sequoia National Park
Mountains of Tulare County, California
Mountains of Northern California
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