Mount Shaw

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Mount Shaw

Elevation	911 metres (2,990 feet)
Location	New Hampshire, USA
Range	Ossipee Mountains
Prominence	710 m (2,330 ft)
Coordinates	43°44.63′N 71°16.45′W / 43.74383, -71.27417Coordinates: 43°44.63′N 71°16.45′W / 43.74383, -71.27417
Topo map	USGS Melvin Village
Listing	#23 New England Fifty Finest

Mount Shaw is a mountain located in Carroll County, New Hampshire. The mountain is the highest of the Ossipee Mountains. Although of only moderate elevation, the isolation of the Ossipee Mountains gives Shaw 2,330 ft of relative height above the low ground separating it from the White Mountains. That makes Shaw one of twelve mountains in New Hampshire with a prominence over 2,000 ft.[1]

The north and southeast sides of the mountain drain into the Lovell and Dan Hole Rivers, thence into the Ossipee River, Maine's Saco River and the Gulf of Maine. The southwest side drains into the Melvin River which flows into Lake Winnipesaukee, thence into the Winnipesaukee River, Merrimack River, and into the Gulf of Maine in Massachusetts.