Big Butt Mountain

{{Short description|Name of five mountains in North Carolina}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}Big Butt Mountain or Big Butt are the names of five distinct mountains in Western North Carolina. Butt in this context is a corruption of butte.{{cite book|last=Lillard|first=David|title=Appalachian Trail Names: Origins of Place Names Along the AT|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XRsC_EBRPEwC&pg=PA12|year=2002|publisher=Stackpole Books|isbn=978-0-8117-2672-6|page=12}}

Buncombe County

File:Big Butt (Buncombe and Yancey counties), Oct 2016.jpg]]

  • Big Butt Mountain is a summit in Buncombe and Haywood counties.{{GNIS|1009283}} It has an elevation of {{convert|4767|ft}}.
  • Big Butt is a summit in Buncombe and Yancey counties.{{cite loj| id =108418 | name =Big Butt, NC 5940'| accessdate = July 3, 2016}} It has an elevation of {{convert|5948|ft}}.

Haywood County

Macon County

File:Big Butt, Macon County, North Carolina viewed from Rabun Bald.jpg]]

  • Big Butt is a summit in Macon County. The mountain has an elevation of about {{convert|5000|ft}}.{{GNIS|1019122}}

Madison County

  • Big Butt is a summit on the border of North Carolina and Greene County, Tennessee. The mountain has an elevation of {{convert|4806|ft}}.{{GNIS|1009282}}

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{{Mountains of North Carolina}}

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Category:Mountains of Buncombe County, North Carolina

Category:Mountains of Haywood County, North Carolina

Category:Mountains of North Carolina