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Starkweather Hill

Coordinates: 42°07′40″N 75°03′04″W / 42.12778°N 75.05111°W / 42.12778; -75.05111
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Starkweather Hill
Starkweather Hill is located in New York
Starkweather Hill
Starkweather Hill
Location of Starkweather Hill within New York
Starkweather Hill is located in the United States
Starkweather Hill
Starkweather Hill
Starkweather Hill (the United States)
Highest point
Elevation2,546 feet (776 m)
Coordinates42°07′40″N 75°03′04″W / 42.12778°N 75.05111°W / 42.12778; -75.05111[1]
Geography
LocationWalton, New York, U.S.
Topo mapUSGS Walton East

Starkweather Hill is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York east-southeast of Walton, New York, and likewise a hill located in the Hidden Hills of Massachusetts west-southwest of Worthington Corners and west-northwest of Worthington Center, Massachusetts, which was named for a noted settler upon it, the Hon. Dr. Ezra Starkweather, colonial physician, revolutionary war soldier, and later a state legislator, but which refers today to one prominence on a ridgeline massif known as West Hill that is situated at north latitude 42 degrees, 24 minutes, 22 seconds and west longitude 72 degrees, 57 minutes, 42 seconds, within the Fox Den State Wildlife Management Area, and is approached from the southeast by Starkweather Hill Road.

References

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  1. ^ "Starkweather Hill". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2018-03-24.