Mount Boardman

{{Short description|Peak in the Diablo Range, California}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Boardman

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| elevation_ft = 3621

| elevation_ref = {{navd88}}{{cite peakbagger |id=1215 |name=Mount Boardman, California |accessdate=2021-10-29}}

| prominence_ft = 98

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| listing = California county high points 49th

| location = San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties, California, U.S.

| range = Diablo Range

| map = USA California

| map_caption = Location of Mount Boardman in California

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| coordinates = {{coord|37.4810618|N|121.4718319|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:GNIS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis |id=1658089 |name=Mount Boardman |accessdate=2021-10-29}}

| topo = USGS Mount Boardman

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Mount Boardman is located in the Diablo Range in California. The summit is near a point where Santa Clara, Alameda, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties meet.{{cite news|title=The master of invisible lines|work=The Record|location=Stockton|first=Michael |last=Fitzgerald|date=January 4, 2018|access-date=31 January 2018|archive-date=2018-01-05|url=http://www.recordnet.com/news/20180104/master-of-invisible-lines|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105061222/http://www.recordnet.com/news/20180104/master-of-invisible-lines|url-status=live}} It was named for W. F. Boardman, the Alameda County surveyor between 1865 and 1869.

{{cite book

| last = Gudde

| first = Erwin G.

| title = California Place Names

| year = 1949

| location = Berkeley

| publisher = Univ. of California Press

| page = 35 }}

There is a higher peak to the north which is unofficially called Boardman North and has an elevation of {{convert|3629|ft|m|0}}.{{cite peakbagger |id=1214 |name=Boardman North, California |accessdate=2021-10-29}} This north peak, unnamed on topographic maps, is located on the Alameda – San Joaquin county line, and is the highest point in San Joaquin County. Some snow falls on both peaks during the winter.

{{cite web

| title = Subsection M262Ac - Diablo Range

| url = http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/projects/ecoregions/m262ac.htm

| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20050315224135/http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/projects/ecoregions/m262ac.htm

| archivedate = 2005-03-15

| publisher = U.S. Forest Service

| access-date = 2014-02-22 }}