Casa Grande Peak
![Casa Grande Peak is located in Texas](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Relief_map_of_Texas.png/272px-Relief_map_of_Texas.png)
![Casa Grande Peak](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Red_triangle_with_thick_white_border.svg/16px-Red_triangle_with_thick_white_border.svg.png)
![Casa Grande Peak is located in the United States](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Usa_edcp_relief_location_map.png/272px-Usa_edcp_relief_location_map.png)
![Casa Grande Peak](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/39/Red_triangle_with_thick_white_border.svg/16px-Red_triangle_with_thick_white_border.svg.png)
Casa Grande Peak is a 7,325-foot-elevation (2,233-meter) mountain summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States.
Description
Casa Grande Peak is located in Big Bend National Park and the Chisos Mountains. It ranks as the fifth-highest peak in this park, mountain range, and county, but only the 26th-highest in Texas.[2][4] The peak is an extra-caldera vent, or volcanic dome, of the Pine Canyon caldera which formed about 32–35 million years ago during a period of volcanic activity.[5] Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,000 feet (610 m) above Chisos Basin in less than 1 mile (1.6 km). Based on the Köppen climate classification, Casa Grande Peak is located in a hot arid climate zone with hot summers and mild winters.[6] Any scant precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into the Rio Grande watershed and the lower slopes of the peak are covered by juniper, oak, and piñon. "Casa Grande" is Spanish for "big house." The mountain is so named because it resembles a large castle, and the toponym was officially adopted in 1939 by the United States Board on Geographic Names.[3]
See also
Gallery
- Casa Grande Peak viewed from Chisos Basin Visitors Center
-
-
- Northwest aspect
References
- ^ Laurence Parent, Hiking Big Bend National Park, Rowman & Littlefield, 2022, ISBN 9781493063123, p. 55.
- ^ a b c d e f "Casa Grande Peak - 7,325' TX". listsofjohn.com. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ a b "Casa Grande Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ a b c "Casa Grande Peak, Texas". Peakbagger.com. Retrieved 2024-01-23.
- ^ Scientific Investigations Map 3142, United States Geological Survey, 2010.
- ^ Peel, M. C.; Finlayson, B. L.; McMahon, T. A. (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification". Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 11. ISSN 1027-5606.
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- Casa Grande Peak: Weather forecast
- v
- t
- e
- Emory Peak
- Casa Grande Peak
- Bush Mountain
- El Capitan
- Guadalupe Peak
- Packsaddle Mountain
- Enchanted Rock
- Bachelor Peak
- Bare Butte
- Beach Mountains
- Carpenter Mountain
- Castle Peak
- Chalk Mountains
- Chinati Mountains
- Christmas Mountains
- Cusseta Mountain
- Davis Mountains
- Delaware Mountains
- Double Mountains
- Granite Mountain
- Greenwood Mountain
- Hairy Knob
- Las Moras Mountain
- Needle Peak (Brewster County)
- Needle Peak (Presidio County)
- Palo Pinto Mountains
- Rattlesnake Point
- Round Top Mountain
- Sierra del Carmen
- Sierra Diablo
- Sierra Vieja
- Slipdown Mountain
- Tackett Mountain