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Thread #16793   Message #772236
Posted By: masato sakurai
27-Aug-02 - 07:45 AM
Thread Name: Is there a real Sourwood Mtn & where?
Subject: RE: Is there a real Sourwood Mtn & where?
According to USGS: Geographic Names Information System (containing "entries for almost 2,000,000 geographic features in the United States"), there're two Sourwood Mountains on the record.

(1) Sourwood Mountain -- St: TN -- County: Jefferson -- Type: summit -- Latitude: 360428N -- Longitude: 0833456W

(2) Sourwood Mountain -- St: VA -- County: Russell -- Type: ridge -- Latitude: 370111N --Longitude: 0820820W

Other Sourwood names include Sourwood Spring (AL), Sourwood (KY), Sourwood Branch (KY, SC), Sourwood Creek (MS, TN), Sourwood Gap (NC), Sourwood Mountain School (school; VA), and Sourwood Ridge (WV). No Massachusetts place name is among them.

~Masato