Mount Humphreys

{{short description|Mountain in California, United States}}

{{about|a mountain in California|the mountain in Yellowstone National Park|Mount Humphreys (Wyoming)|the highest point in Arizona|Humphreys Peak}}

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{{Infobox mountain

| name = Mount Humphreys

| photo = Mount Humphreys.jpg

| photo_caption = Mount Humphreys from the south

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| elevation_ft = 13,992

| elevation_ref = {{NAVD88}}{{cite peakbagger |id=2681 |name=Mount Humphreys, California |access-date=January 8, 2016}}

| prominence = 2563 ft (781 m)

| prominence_ref =

| isolation_mi = 14.71

| isolation_ref =

| listing = {{unbulleted list

| North America highest peaks 62nd

| US highest major peaks 47th

| California highest major peaks 6th

| Sierra Peaks Section Emblem peak{{cite sps |accessdate=2008-09-28}}

| Vagmarken Club Sierra Crest List{{cite vagmarken |access-date=2021-11-26}}

| Western States Climbers Star peak{{cite wsc |access-date=2021-11-26}} }}

| location = {{thinsp|Fresno / Inyo counties, California, U.S.}}

| map = California#USA

| map_caption =

| map_size = 240

| label_position = below

| range = Sierra Nevada

| coordinates = {{coord|37.270545708|N|118.672999478|W|type:mountain_region:US-CA_scale:100000_source:NGS|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| range_coordinates =

| coordinates_ref = {{cite ngs |id=HR2626 |name=Mt Humphreys |accessdate=2011-05-31}}

| topo = USGS Mount Tom

| first_ascent = 1904 by Edward C. Hutchinson and James S. Hutchinson{{cite Farquhar |id=H |2011-06-01}}

| easiest_route = Climb, {{YDS|4}}

}}

Mount Humphreys is a mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada on the Fresno-Inyo county line in the U.S. state of California. It is the 13th highest peak in California (the highest peak that is not a fourteener),{{cite peakbagger |lid=21320 |name=California 13,500-foot Peaks |access-date=2014-01-17}} and the highest peak in the Bishop area. The mountain was named by the California Geological Survey of 1873 for Andrew A. Humphreys, the chief engineer of the United States Army at the time.