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Ulysses S Grant Peak
Ulysses S Grant Peak is a 13,767-foot-elevation (4,196-meter) mountain summit located on the shared boundary of San Juan County with San Miguel County, in southwest Colorado, United States. It is situated eight miles west of the community of Silverton, on land managed by San Juan National Forest and Uncompahgre National Forest. Ulysses S Grant Peak is part of the San Juan Mountains which are a subset of the Rocky Mountains, and is west of the Continental Divide. It ranks as the 119th-highest peak in Colorado, and topographic relief is significant as the west aspect rises 2,400 feet (730 meters) in approximately one mile. The mountain's name, which has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names, was in use in an 1896 scientific publication by Charles Whitman Cross, and listed by Henry Gannett when he published A Gazetteer of Colorado in 1906.

Climate

According to the Köppen climate classification system, Ulysses S Grant Peak is located in an alpine subarctic climate zone with long, cold, snowy winters, and cool to warm summers. Due to its altitude, it receives precipitation all year, as snow in winter, and as thunderstorms in summer, with a dry period in late spring. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains west into tributaries of the San Miguel River, and east to the Animas River via Mineral Creek.

See also

  • South aspect centered behind ridge and Ice Lake "V 4" (13,540 ft) to the left
    South aspect centered behind ridge and Ice Lake
    "V 4" (13,540 ft) to the left
  • Ulysses S. Grant Peak centered, from the east
    Ulysses S. Grant Peak centered, from the east

References

  1. ^ "U S Grant Peak, Colorado". Peakbagger.com.
  2. ^ "Ulysses S. Grant Peak - 13,767' CO". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  3. ^ "Ulysses S Grant Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2021-07-19.
  4. ^ C. W. Purington, Preliminary Report on the Mining Industries of the Telluride Quadrangle, Colorado, Eighteenth Annual Report of the United States Geographical Survey, 1898, Government Printing Office, page 763.
  5. ^ Whitman Cross, Igneous Rocks of the Telluride District, Colorado, The Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society, 1896, page 230.
  6. ^ Henry Gannett, Gazetteer of Colorado, 1906, US Government Printing Office, page 172.
  7. ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.
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