Hoosier Hill, Indiana

Elevation Info:	NAVD88 Elevation: 1257 ft / 383 m
Peak Type	Hill
Latitude/Longitude (WGS84)	40° 0' 4'' N, 84° 50' 55'' W 40.001197, -84.848714 (Dec Deg) 683638 E 4430107 N, Zone 16 (UTM)
Country	United States
State/Province	Indiana (Highest Point)
County/Second Level Region	Wayne (Highest Point)
City/Town	Franklin
Links Search Engines - search the web for "Hoosier Hill":      Wikipedia Search      Microsoft Bing Search      Google Search      Yahoo Search Other Web Sites      Hoosier Hill at SummitPost.org      Hoosier Hill at ListsOfJohn.com      Weather for Hoosier Hill at Mountain-Forecast.com      CoHP.org Trip Report for Wayne, IN by Ron Tagliapietra      CoHP.org Trip Report for Wayne, IN by David Keller      CoHP.org Trip Report for Wayne, IN by Tom Harper      CoHP.org Trip Report for Wayne, IN by John Hasch Weather and Snow      National Weather Service Forecast      NOAA Snow Depth Map Lists that contain Hoosier Hill:      Contiguous 48 U.S. State High Points (Rank #42)      U.S. State High Points (Rank #44)      United States State/Territory High Points (Rank #49)      EPIC List - States of the USA (Rank #75)      Combined USA-Canada-Mexico State/Province High Points (Rank #86)      CoHP High Five List (Rank #218)      Midwest USA CoHPs (Rank #552)      Indiana County High Points (Rank #1) Selected Guidebook(s) for this Peak:        Fifty State Summits, Guide with Maps to State Highpoints (Zumwalt)        Highpoints of the United States: A Guide to the Fifty State Summits (Holmes)        Highpoint Adventures: The Complete Guide to the 50 State Highpoints (Winger)
Ascent Info Total successful ascents logged by registered Peakbagger.com users: 778      Show all viewable ascents/attempts (Total: 714) Selected Trip Reports:      1991-07-16 by Dennis Stewart      1998-05-23 by Scott Surgent      2006-12-27 by Heather Hasch      2007-01-07 by John Gower      2008-08-31 by Jamie Bakken      2010-06-13 by Tom Owen      2010-08-08 by Keith Turner      2010-08-14 by Ron Stangeland      2010-10-16 by Alan Barber      2010-10-25 by William Musser      2011-06-06 by Douglas Knipple      2012-01-08 by Tye Scott      2013-07-06 by Jason Vogler      2013-07-16 by Peter Stone      2013-09-01 by Bill Reese      2014-05-25 by Wayne Snyder      2014-05-31 by Dave Dunham      2014-11-09 by Dennis Stewart      2015-03-18 by Brian Molloy      2015-05-20 by Andy Hatzos (GPS Track)      2015-09-20 by Ian Covey      2016-02-03 by Bob Kuebler      2016-02-22 by Ed Wandall      2016-03-05 by Craig Barrett      2017-06-10 by Crystal Davis      2017-07-03 by Alisa Funke      2017-07-17 by David Odenwalder      2018-03-10 by Spencer Corcoran      2018-06-24 by Ryan Turner (GPS Track)      2019-02-02 by Jay Detty      2019-12-18 by Gustav Sexauer      2021-03-31 by Archie Chesler      2021-10-05 by Stephen Pardo (GPS Track)
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Prominence	Key Col Page  (Detailed prominence information)   Clean Prominence: 297 ft/90 m   Optimistic Prominence: 302 ft/91 m   Line Parent: Campbell Hill   Key Col: Miami and Erie Canal    960 ft/293 m
Isolation	Isolation Page  (Detailed isolation information)    Distance: 46.64 mi/75.06 km    Isolation Limit Point: 40.117756, -83.982178 Nearest Higher Neighbor in the PBC database:     Champaign County Prominence Point  (E)
Ranges	Continent: North America Range2: North America Plains Range3: Midwest-Great Lakes Area Range4: Lower Peninsula-Heartland Range5: Ohio-Wabash-Erie Area
Drainage Basins	Ohio Mississippi Gulf of Mexico Atlantic Ocean
Ownership	Land: Private Land
Topo Map	Spartanburg O40084a7 1:24,000
Route #1	Paved Road
Data Source	GPS Reading or LIDAR

Other Photos

Hoosier Hill (2012-08-21). Photo by Ronald Land. Click here for larger-size photo.

HP #11 (2011-11-13). Photo by Ken Curtis. Click here for larger-size photo.

Atop the lofty highpoint of Indiana (2015-03-18). Photo by Brian Molloy. Click here for larger-size photo.

Craig Barrett making the second of three ascents (Ohio, Indiana and Missouri) on March 5, 2016 before a fourth ascent in Arkansas the following day (2016-03-05). Photo by Craig Barrett. Click here for larger-size photo.

former wooden sign marking the top of Indiana (2010-06-13). Photo by Tom Owen. Click here for larger-size photo.

Indiana's Hoosier Hill - US Highpoint #14 (2017-12-18). Photo by John Edwards. Click here for larger-size photo.

Panoramic (2017-12-18). Photo by John Edwards. Click here for larger-size photo.

A (very) little joke I use when hiking in Indiana, "The high point for the state is 1257 feet. No matter how much the elevation change kills you, we will NOT be going higher than 1256 feet." (2016-03-26). Photo by Andrew Short. Click here for larger-size photo.

Highest cat in Indiana (2019-08-29). Photo by Michael Vecchiarelli. Click here for larger-size photo.

Hoosier Hill, Indiana (2020-12-04). Photo by Mark Swiontek. Click here for larger-size photo.

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