Mount Tom (New Hampshire)

Coordinates: 44°12′37″N 71°26′45″W / 44.2103432°N 71.4459112°W

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Mount Tom
Mt. Tom (lower center) as seen from Mt. Jefferson
Highest point
Elevation	4,051 ft (1,235 m)^[1]
Prominence	331 ft (101 m)^[1]
Listing	White Mountain 4000-Footers
Coordinates	44°12′37″N 71°26′45″W / 44.2103432°N 71.4459112°W / 44.2103432; -71.4459112^[2]
Geography

Location	Grafton County, New Hampshire, U.S.
Parent range	Willey Range
Topo map	USGS Crawford Notch
Climbing
Easiest route	Hike Avalon Trail to A-Z Trail to Mt. Tom Spur

Mount Tom is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) southwest of the height of land of Crawford Notch.

The mountain is named after Thomas Crawford,^[3] whose family ran three inns in Crawford Notch in the first half of the nineteenth century. Mount Tom is part of the Willey Range of the White Mountains. Tom is flanked to the south by Mount Field. Mt. Tom is drained on the east by Crawford Brook and on the west by the Zealand River. Both are tributaries of the Ammonoosuc River, which drains into the Connecticut and thence into Long Island Sound.

From 1829 until about 1850, Tom Crawford was the innkeeper at the Notch House, which was located at the top of the Notch. Around 1850, Tom Crawford started to build a larger hotel and ran into financial difficulty. Forced to sell out, he left the Notch at that time. The hotel he started became the Crawford House.

An alpine ski area associated with Tom Corcoran and the Crawford House was proposed for the northern slope of the mountain in the early 1970s.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Mount Tom, New Hampshire". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
^ "Mount Tom". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2013-02-22.
^ Cenkl, Pavel (2009). This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911. University of Iowa Press. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-1-58729-714-4.
^ New England Ski History: Cancelled Ski Areas, Mt. Tom

External links

"Hiking Mount Tom". Appalachian Mountain Club.
"Mt. Tom". HikeTheWhites.com.
"Mt. Tom". FranklinSites.com Hiking Guide.
"Mt. Tom:. New Hampshire Cancelled Ski Areas. NewEnglandSkiHistory.com.

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Carter-Moriah Range	Carter Dome Imp Mountain Middle Carter Mountain Middle Moriah Mountain Mount Hight Mount Moriah North Baldface North Carter Mountain Shelburne Moriah Mountain South Carter Mountain Wildcat Mountain
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Mahoosuc Range	Mount Success North Bald Cap
Pilot Range	The Bulge The Horn Mount Cabot
Presidential Range	Boott Spur Mount Adams Mount Clay Mount Davis Mount Eisenhower Mount Franklin Mount Isolation Mount Jackson Mount Jefferson Mount Madison Mount Monroe Mount Pierce Mount Washington Mount Webster
Sandwich Range	Mount Chocorua Mount Passaconaway Mount Tripyramid Mount Whiteface Sandwich Mountain The Sleepers
Twin Range	Galehead Mountain Mount Bond Mount Guyot Mount Hale North Twin Mountain Nubble Peak South Twin Mountain Twin Mountains
Others (White Mtns.)	Bartlett Haystack Bear Mountain Black Cap Carr Mountain Dartmouth Range Dickey Mountain East Peak Mount Osceola Jericho Mountain Kearsarge North Loon Mountain Mount Avalon Mount Blue Mount Carrigain Mount Cilley Mount Crawford Mount Doublehead Mount Field Mount Forest Mount Garfield Mount Hancock Mount Mitten Mount Moosilauke Mount Nancy Mount Osceola Mount Rosebrook Mount Starr King Mount Tecumseh Mount Tom Mount Tremont Mount Waumbek Mount Weeks Mount Willard Mount Willey Mount Zealand North Moat Mountain Owl's Head (Carroll) Owl's Head (Franconia) Scar Ridge South Weeks

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Northern ranges	Cabot Waumbek
Carter-Moriah Range	Carter Dome Middle Carter Moriah South Carter Wildcat (A) Wildcat (D)
Presidential Range	Adams Eisenhower Isolation Jackson Jefferson Madison Monroe Pierce Washington
Crawford Notch area	Field Tom Willey
Twin Range	Bond Bond (West) Bondcliff Galehead Hale North Twin South Twin Zealand
Pemigewasset Wilderness	Carrigain Hancock (North) Hancock (South) Owl's Head
Sandwich Range	Osceola Osceola (East) Tripyramid (Middle) Tripyramid (North) Passaconaway Tecumseh Whiteface
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