Talk:Taum Sauk Mountain
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[edit] Elevation
I reverted a change to the elevation that was based on the Encyclopaedia Britannica, though no citation was given. The E.B. is not known to be without error, but I'd be interested in what their source is. Until better data is cited, I'll take the USGS number of 1772 as shown on the 7.5-minute topographical map as well as referenced in this educational article. (I tried putting both these references into my edit summary with TinyURL, but the second one got truncated into an even tinier url that leads off into the wild blue.) Curiously, a Topozone.com search results page lists yet a third value that differs from both the 1772 figure and the 1769 attributed to E.B. --Kbh3rdtalk 22:47, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
- I added an inline reference to the USGS booklet Elevations and Distances in the United States, which seems like a reasonable source to cite. --Kbh3rdtalk 23:02, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
