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Mount Clemens

(Encyclopedia)Mount Clemens klĕmˈənz [key], city (1990 pop. 18,405), seat of Macomb co., NE of Detroit, SE Mich., on the Clinton River; settled c.1798, inc. as a city 1879. The city is known for its mineral wate...

Mount Olympus

(Encyclopedia)Mount Olympus: see Cyprus; Olympic Mountains; Olympus. ...

Mount Pleasant

(Encyclopedia)Mount Pleasant, city (1990 pop. 23,285), seat of Isabella co., central Mich., on the Chippewa River; settled before 1860, inc. as a city 1889. The city grew after oil was found nearby in 1928. Oil wel...

Mount Prospect

(Encyclopedia)Mount Prospect, village (1990 pop. 53,170), Cook co., NE Ill.; inc. 1917. It is a residential suburb of Chicago.

Hamilton, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Hamilton, Mount, peak 4,372 ft (1,333 m) high, W Calif., in the Coast Ranges, E of San Jose. It is the site of Lick Observatory (built 1876–88), directed by the Univ. of California Observatories. ...

Hermon, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Hermon, Mount hûrˈmən [key], Arabic Jabal Ash Shaykh [mountain of the chief] and Jebel-eth-Thelj [snowy mountain], on the Syria-Lebanon border. The highest of its three peaks (all of which are snow...

Hakone, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Hakone, Mount: see under Hakone, region, Japan. ...

Greylock, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Greylock, Mount, Mass.: see Berkshire Hills. ...

Frissell, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Frissell, Mount frĭzĕlˈ [key], peak, 2,380 ft (725 m) high, NW Conn., in the Taconic Mts., near the Mass.–N.Y. line. ...

Fuji, Mount

(Encyclopedia)Fuji, Mount fo͞oˈjē-sän [key], volcanic peak, 12,389 ft (3,776 m) high, central Honshu, Japan, in Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park (472 sq mi/1,222 sq km; est. 1936). The highest mountain in Japan, i...