There is a fair amount of discrepancy between what the actual summit elevation is of many mountains in the U.S. In this case, the NPS says this peak is 11,358.[1] The United States Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) says 11,352[2]...USGS maps say 11,367[3] and the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) says 11,372.[4] The Peakbagger website tends to report USGS topographic map data as the official elevation but also lists the NAVD88 elevations and explains why they prefer the old topo map elevations.[5] WikiProject Mountains may have a suggestion of which is the best source. For now, I simply added Peakbaggers USGS topo elevation.--MONGO 03:27, 16 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
- The topoquest link you provided above uses the 1989 provisional USGS edition and shows the elevation as 11367 ft and specifically states 1983 NAD. The 1991 USGS Eagle Peak map doesn't give a peak elevation (just contours) and the 2012 US Topo does the same. The 1959 15 minute USGS map gives an elevation of 11358 ft using the 1927 NAD. The Peakbagger link shows the topo from the 1991 USGS map which doesn't show the specific peak elevation. The site also gives the NAVD88 elevation of 11,372 ft / 3466 m which the current US Topo is based on. Vsmith (talk) 14:23, 16 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
- See my response at WikiProject Mountains. I think MONGO did the right thing. I updated the elevation to NAVD88, per Vsmith (and per what we've gradually been doing over the years). —hike395 (talk) 16:17, 16 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
- I've added the 11372 elevation to the article text to match the infobox...now based on NAVD88 data, probably the most accurate.--MONGO 16:50, 16 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
