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Prospect Peak
Winter sunset on Prospect Peak
Highest point
Elevation	9,527 ft (2,904 m)
Coordinates	44°53′17″N 110°30′10″W / 44.88806°N 110.50278°W / 44.88806; -110.50278
Geography
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Location	Yellowstone National Park Park County, Wyoming, US
Parent range	Washburn Range
Topo map	USGS Blacktail Deer Creek

Prospect Peak el. 9,527 feet (2,904 m) is a mountain peak in the Washburn Range of Yellowstone National Park. The summit is located approximately 6 miles (9.7 km) west southwest of Tower Junction. Between 1883 and 1885, members of the Arnold Hague Geological Surveys named the peak Surprise Peak for reasons not now known. In 1880, then superintendent Philetus Norris had named the peak Mount Stephans for one of his assistants, C. N. Stephans. However, in 1885 Arnold Hague, for reasons again not known today, gave the peak its present name—Prospect Peak. The USGS has also mapped this summit as Mount Stephens. and also cited Surprise Peak as an alternate name.

See also

• Mountains and mountain ranges of Yellowstone National Park

Notes

1. ^ "Prospect Peak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
2. Whittlesey, Lee (1996). Yellowstone Place Names. Gardiner, MT: Wonderland Publishing Company. p. 208. ISBN 1-59971-716-6.
3. Citation from GNIS per U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Prospect Peak (Park County, Wyoming)
4. Citation from GNIS per U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Prospect Peak (Park County, Wyoming)

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