Mount Davidson (Nevada)

{{Short description|Mountain in Nevada, United States}}

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

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| name = Mount Davidson

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| elevation_ft = 7868

| elevation_ref = {{NAVD88}}{{cite ngs |id=KR1642 |name=Davidson |accessdate=2009-09-25}}

| prominence_ft = 2704

| prominence_ref = {{cite peakbagger |pid=3378 |name=Mount Davidson, Nevada |accessdate=2009-09-25}}

| location = Storey County, Nevada, U.S.

| range = Virginia Range

| listing = Nevada County High Points 17th

| map = Nevada

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| map_size = 180

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Mount Davidson is both the highest and most topographically prominent mountain in both Storey County, Nevada, and the Virginia Range. The mountain forms a backdrop for the mining boomtown of Virginia City which was built above the Comstock Lode silver strike.

Mount Davidson was named after Donald Davidson, a geologist.{{cite book | url=http://dwgateway.library.unr.edu/keck/histtopoNV/Origin_of_Place_Names_Files/1941NevadaOriginofNames-pt2.pdf | title=Origin of Place Names: Nevada | publisher=W.P.A. | author=Federal Writers' Project | year=1941 | pages=67}}

Mark Twain mentions a flag on Mount Davidson in his semi-autobiographical book Roughing It.

{{cite book

| last = Twain

| first = Mark

| title = Roughing It

| year = 1872

| publisher = Project Gutenberg

| url = http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3177 }}

As of 2003 the flagpole was still standing.{{cite summitpost |id=153745 |title=Mount Davidson |accessdate=2009-12-31 }}