Tallery Mountain is a summit in West Virginia, in the United States.[1] With an elevation of 2,720 feet (830 m), Tallery Mountain is the 479th highest summit in the state of West Virginia.[2]

Tallery Mountain was so named because it was supposed when wet, the slope is as slick as tallow.[3]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Tallery Mountain
  2. ↑ "Tallery Mountain". Peakery.com. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
  3. ↑ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 619.

37°33′56″N 80°56′57″W / 37.5656750°N 80.9492543°W / 37.5656750; -80.9492543


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