Jurisdictions with artificial high points
The highest point in Illinois is the top of the Sears (Willis) Tower, which is significantly higher than the highest natural point (pitiful Charles Mound, more than a thousand feet lower than the antenna of the Sears tower, and 700 ft lower than the sky deck).
I wonder how common this is. Obviously this holds for Florida, since its high point is only 341 and there must be hundreds of buildings higher than that in Florida. I thought it might be true for Delaware, but it doesn't seem to be. |
The landfill is taller than the tallest hill in Austin:
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/2009-09-18/865021/ |
The highest natural point in Ohio is Campbell Hill, 1550ft above sea level. Key Tower, in Cleveland it 947ft to the tip of the spire. Public Square, which Key Tower is located on, is ~656ft above sea level - making the top of Key Tower about 53ft higher than the highest natural point in the state.
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Highest point in San Francisco is Sutro (TV) Tower on top of Mt. Sutro.
https://img.theculturetrip.com/1440x...utro-tower.jpg https://theculturetrip.com/north-ame...s-sutro-tower/ Its base on top of the "mountain" is at 834 ft and the tower itself rises 977 ft for a total height of 1811 ft above sea level. The highest "point" in the state of California is natural; Mt. Whitney at 14,505 ft. There are at least 10 peaks in the state more than 14,000 ft. |
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Edit: I see Pedestrian beat me to it. |
Interesting posts, thank you for sharing.
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This reminds of this old list I have on my computer....
Difference in Feet between the Lowest to Highest Elevation, Selected US Cities Los Angeles, CA 5,074 ft Honolulu, HI 4,020 ft San Jose, CA 2,125 ft Oakland, CA 1,754 ft Phoenix, AZ 1,642 ft Albuquerque, NM 1,174 ft Portland, OR 1,073 ft San Francisco 934 ft San Diego, CA 823 ft Nashville, TN 775 ft Austin, TX 674 ft Pittsburgh, PA 660 ft Seattle, WA 520 ft Denver, CO 340 ft |
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The highest natural point above sea level in Miami-Dade County is less than 30 feet so any 3 story building would qualify. There are "unnatural" higher points though (landfills, indian mounds...etc).
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This is interesting. Do you happen to have details on Boise? I know Table Rock is about 900 feet above downtown, but there are houses above it and other parts of the city that are lower. I've always wondered what the elevation variance is. |
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Reno has a lowest point of around 4400'. The city limits don't include any of the nearby mountains, the highest point I see is a bit over 6200' in the foothills of Mt. Rose. (Mt. Rose is 10,785', but outside city limits). Looking at the map of the city limits, I learned that much of what I thought was part of Reno near Mt. Rose is actually unincorporated...
Carson City on the other hand does include part of the Carson Range in its city limits, so it ranges in elevation of around 4600' to 9214' (Snow Valley Peak). |
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/Elevations.../elvadist.html Has Austin perhaps annexed adjacent areas since 1980? That could be the reason for the discrepancy.:shrug: |
Colorado Springs has parts of Cheyenne Mountain at 9570 ft in its city limits so that is about 3500 ft difference than the elevation downtown
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For states where the top of the highest skyscraper surpasses the highest hill in elevation: We have Florida, Illinois, and Ohio already, and Indiana and Louisiana make it as well.
Delaware seems to be within a few feet of the cutoff: 1260 North Market Street is 360 feet on a base around 80 feet while Ebright Azimuth is 447 feet. Iowa, Mississippi, and a bit surprisingly Missouri seem to be within two hundred feet of that list. |
Here's the highest point in Delaware. The USGS disk in the ground marks the spot, and you can see the cutout in the sidewalk for it.
https://www.google.com/maps/@39.8357...4!8i8192?hl=en Zoom out and look around, and you can see that the house across the street is higher up than our highpoint, and you can see the radio tower next door is higher than the highpoint as well. We are probably the only state where you can be down the street and look down on the state highpoint. |
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Checking structures like radio towers, as well as all of the state highpoints that have lookouts and the like, it seems that if you allow any man-made structure, this list includes every state east of the Rockies except Maine, Vermont, and New York.
(Both Mt. Washington in New Hampshire and Black Elk Peak in South Dakota have structures at their summits.) |
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