Baird Mountain

Baird Mountain is a summit in Taney County in southern Missouri. The peak has an elevation of 1,234 feet (376 m)[1] The peak lies just southeast of the Table Rock Lake dam above Missouri Route 265. Table Rock State Park lies just to the west.[2] Baird Mountain is where the Army Corp of Engineers quarried the rock to make all the concrete for Table Rock Dam. The rock was transported off Baird Mountain with a one-mile long conveyor belt to the site of the dam.

Baird Mountain has the name of one Mr. Baird, a pioneer prospector.[3]

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Baird Mountain
  2. ↑ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 62, ISBN 0-89933-224-2
  3. ↑ "Taney County Place Names, 1928–1945". The State Historical Society of Missouri. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2016.

Coordinates: 36°35′01″N 93°17′31″W / 36.58361°N 93.29194°W / 36.58361; -93.29194


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